[results] Help me understand this

[summerthyme]

Ok, I don't know if this will come through formatted properly. (this is off the C-Span site)

How can they have Deleware called for KERRY, when Bush is ahead?

(you can't see it here, but on the site at http://network.ap.org/dynamic/files...onal/pres.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS, there is a red check mark by KERRY'S name indicating that he has won...

WTF???

Delaware ElectTotal: 3 Precincts Reporting: 43%
Name Party Vote Pct Electoral
Bush Rep 90,858 51 0
Kerry Dem 85,879 48 3
Nader Ind 1,060 1 0
Badnarik Lib 243 0 0
Peroutka CST 148 0 0
Cobb Grn 117 0 0
Brown NLP 37 0 0

 

[Dennis Olson]

Delaware		 ElectTotal: 3		 Precincts Reporting: 89%
	Name	Party	Vote	Pct	Electoral
	Bush	Rep	154,115	46	0
	Kerry	Dem	176,953	53	3
	Nader	Ind	1,931	1	0
	BadnarikLib	522	0	0
	PeroutkaCST	271	0	0
	Cobb	Grn	229	0	0
	Brown	NLP	92	0	0

 

[summerthyme]

yeah- so how did they KNOW that the results with half the precincts reporting were not the way it was going to go? (not implying anything here, just curious)

Summerthyme

 

[Aleph Null]

It's based on statistical analysis of polls and exit polls, and also on which precincts are in which areas. So for example, if mostly pro-Bush areas have reported and he doesn't have enough of a lead to offset the expected Kerry results, they can call for Kerry.

-A0-