[typography font="Ubuntu Condensed" size="22" size_format="px"]CBS News affiliate calls 2012 presidential race for Barack Obama weeks ahead of election[/typography]
The 2012 presidential election is still more than two weeks away, but on Friday a CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the race for President Barack Obama.
For 17 seconds, Phoenix, Arizona CBS News affiliate KPHO ran a lower third graphic that showed that Obama had won the Nov. 6 election over Gov. Mitt Romney with 99% of the precincts reporting. The lower third graphic appeared around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, during an episode of “The People’s Court.”
The CBS News graphic showed Obama winning the election with 43 percent of the vote nationwide to Romney’s 40 percent -– or 40,237,966 votes to 38,116,216. It is unclear who garnered the other 17 percent in the fictional election results.
WTF?
That’s what I said…
They claim it was just a glitch, they were testing a crawler for election night.
Still, one wonders, why are these glitches always running to the same side?
Exactly…!
the election is over and you forgot to vote – if people are dumb enough to dring the coolaid they might be dumb enough to believe this – but I think this could backfire since Democrats are the ones sitting at home on welfare watching this show while republicans are at work to pay for it – who is seeing this message?
Good point!!
Can I just vote for W again? I miss him.
Me too!
I’m still crushing on that man! Sigh. That’s a MAN! I wonder if Laura would go sharesies with us.
Yeah, W is hawt. But I know Texas women and the answer is no. Unfortunately.
LOL!