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Friday, November 05, 2004
 
"Fair and Balanced" but Willing to Lend A Hand

One of Rove's main theories for the 2004 election was the bandwagon theory, which is the idea that Bush was always in the lead and Democratic attempts to overtake him would be based on voter fraud or illegitimate ballots. Part of that included Bush holding a steady lead in the electoral college during election night returns. Whoever is leading in the electoral college early in the night is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but it helps to shape public perception.

That is why I found it so interesting that, unlike every other network, Fox News failed to call California for Kerry after the polls closed there at 11:00 EST. Adding those 55 votes to Kerry's current totals would have temporarily put him ahead of Bush. So Fox waited to call California, until it was ready to call Florida for Bush at the same time, keeping Bush in the lead.

It is also no surprise that Fox was the first network to call Ohio for Bush.

- posted by Joshua @ 9:34 AM
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