1. Already, though, we can project winners. 2. --It will not project a winner in a state until all polls have closed in that state. 3. Nor did it promise to refrain from using sample precincts to project winners. 4. Officials on both sides said the networks had no business projecting winners before the polls closed in states. 5. Prematurely projecting the winner of Florida in the presidential race provides insights into the methods and difficulties of weather forecasting. 6. Should one candidate roll up enough big states, the networks will project the winner while polls in the West are still open. 7. The network also said it will not project winners until all the polls in a state close. 8. ABC, like others, said it will project winners in a race in a given state only after all the polls in that state are closed. 9. ABC News sent Tauzin a report Thursday in which it promised not to project a winner in any state until all polls in that state were closed. 10. Kohut noted many major national polls were in the same ballpark, and most admitted the race was too close to project a winner. |