re: MSNBC puts Florida Governor Race "with 99% of the votes in" graphic on air

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Have you worked in a newsroom?

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So now you want to go the route of just trusting you and all logic be damned?

Sad.

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Graphic ops manually enter in numbers the day before to make sure that the graphic populates properly. This as well as the ticker at the bottom of the screen should be tested the day before every election.

Someone just loaded up a test graphic on-air by accident

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This is the most logical explanation. Although its more likely a mistake by the technical director than the graphics op.

Most likely, the actual numbers come from an Excel doc that's used as a database to feed the results fields on the CG. It's probably filled with garbage data (or perhaps even old data from some point during the 2016 election).

More indicative of general sloppiness than liberal bias. Not that MSNPC isn't the worst in the latter regard, but this isnt evidence of that.

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Same shite happened when the media called Florida for Gore and it has not changed since...

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Completely different situation - that was due to blatant ignorance of the fact that the panhandle is in the Central time zone and the polls were still open for another hour. Inexcusable, and it still happens on a regular basis.