CNN took over the Empire State Building’s lighted tower to project state-by-state wins in blue for Obama and red for Romney. The news divisions also used Election Night to roll out new bells and whistles.
STORY: Karl Rove, Diane Sawyer Add a Touch of Weirdness to Election Night “It doesn’t help to put somewhere where people can’t see it.” “We are trying to be very transparent,” he explained from the control room on Tuesday night. CBS News president David Rhodes explained that he had no qualms about having “editorial conversations” with CBS News pollsters and analysts. The CBS News “election desk” was set up in a circular formation behind Scott Pelley’s anchor position in the main studio. They were 99.95 percent sure Ohio would go for Obama, they told her.ĬBS News broke with some of its network peers in that it did not sequester its decision desk away from the cacophony of the newsroom. The on-air dispute caused anchor Megyn Kelly to march down to the decision desk office and interview the analysts about their methodology.
The Fox News decision desk commanded an unexpected cameo during the network’s coverage when Karl Rove – a Republican strategist and principal of the Super PAC Crossroads GPS – disagreed with their decision to call Ohio for Obama. ABC News’ pollsters were ensconced at the network’s Upper West Side headquarters while election coverage originated from ABC’s Times Square studios more than 20 blocks south. ABC News and NBC News sequestered their decision desks away from pressure packed control rooms. With many pre-election polls finding a dead heat between Obama and Romney, there was much focus on the networks’ decisions desks, which are staffed with pollsters crunching exit poll data from the National Election Pool (made up of representatives from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press) in order to call states for the candidates. And 2004, offered its own cautionary narrative when early exit polling seemed to portend a victory for John Kerry. A lesson learned the hard way in 2000, when Americans awoke the day after the election without a president.
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