If not for the panhandle Mitt would have won FL already

[cthulu2016]

(Okay, he won it by about 5PM, but I mean it would be called for him.)

The networks will call it for Romney at 8PM. They'd like to call it sooner but the Florida panhandle is in a different time zone from the bulk of the state and thir polls don't close until 8PM Eastern time.

So everyone has to kill an hour pretending to not know stuff they know, which is insulting to the viewer, IMHO.

[gopiscrap]

1. I's a result of the 1980 elections

when the networks called the election 3 hours before the polls closed on the west coast and it deeply hurt down ticket Dem candidates.

[cthulu2016]

2. And, IIRC, of 2000 (?)

Did ABC call FL for Gore before 8PM?