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How to call an election

Explain It to Me

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The Politics of Calling Races

Fox News called a state for Obama and Carl Rowe who had been a key advisor to President George W. Bush was on the Fox News television desk. Not the decision desk where the decision about calling is made but on television talking about what was happening. That can be very difficult. We're like, oh, it's the decision to get desk. You all are doing it here. It's not Anderson Cooper or Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow or Lester Holt,. They're telling us about the calls that were made by the folks in the decision desk room. Does anybody have somebody else?

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