NBC News and Fox News

[sg0508]

I don't know, but NBC/CNN would call KErry states instantly, while Bush states would take time. SC, GA, VA, NC, WV etc were all too early to call for a long time, yet close states like MI and PA were called for Kerry as soon as the polls closed.

I'm not sure what you were watching, but MI was not called until the middle of the night and GA was called right now.  SC took some time as did MT.  NJ was a quick call, which surprised us. 

It wasn't that bad. 

The other networks all called NV rather than OH.  In the end, it didn't matter.

[sg0508]

The state of Ohio was called as it should have been. The other networks refused to announce it in order to cause Bush to give his acceptance speech the next day at 3p.m. while everyone was at work instead of at the end of the election night or just before midnight. The mainstream media hates the GOP and MSNBC made an executive decision to move to the left about a year later. The candidates actually get the results before the news networks anyways so it's not like Bush or Kerry were waiting in suspense. Kerry didn't want to give Bush the full feeling of being reelected either and he was too much of a wimp to come out and admit defeat.

Then why did some networks call NV (ABC, CNN), but not OH?  After 2000, Kerry didn't want to concede so fast.  In the end, a reversal in OH would have put Kerry over the top. 

[sg0508]

Again, OH but Bush at 269.  Had it put him at 270, NBC and Fox wouldn't have called it.  Rather, they would have done what CBS and ABC did, which was call Nevada instead and then wait for OH the following morning.