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Stagecoach Donating Member (468 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 08:10 PM
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4. Like I heard yesterday
Keep in mind, these networks paid megabucks for all these election gizmos for people like John King & Chuck Todd to use on election night.....and they need a return on investment on those toys. Talk of a landslide doesn't do that.

Also, when they've sold advertising time and to get these advertisers on board they promise them such and such ratings or else they'll make up any shortfall in ratings with free commercials in the future, which eats into inventory that could be paid for. A landslide doesn't help in terms of high ratings.
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  -John King (CNN) talks like the race is razor close; he is the "Map Man" and is protecting AlinPA  Oct-28-08 08:05 PM   #0 
  - It's all about the horse race narrative  GrizzlyMan   Oct-28-08 08:06 PM   #1 
  - That is, on whole, the kinder of the two possible explanations.  Bucky   Oct-28-08 08:09 PM   #3 
  - What ever  Botany   Oct-28-08 08:07 PM   # 
  - Good...  Lost-in-FL   Oct-28-08 08:07 PM   #2 
  - Like I heard yesterday  Stagecoach   Oct-28-08 08:10 PM   #4 
  - John King tries to portray himself as "down the middle"  itsrobert   Oct-28-08 08:11 PM   #5 
 

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