ABC IS CALLING THE RACE RIGHT AT POLL CLOSING TIME

[RoveRage]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/live-blogging-s.html

7 pm ET: ABC IS CALLING THE RACE RIGHT AT POLL CLOSING TIME. From our decision desk: "Based on exit poll data, ABC News projects that Obama will win the South Carolina Democratic primary. We do not yet have enough information to project who will be second or third, but based on the exit polls Clinton is leading over Edwards in a race for second."

This would SUGGEST a large margin -- networks don't call races based only on exit polls unless it's pretty convincing.

6:58 pm: This will provide updated REAL VOTE information, as it rolls in from S.C. precincts:

[rodeodance]

1. not really anything we did not know--

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. WAIT A MINUTE, EXIT POLLS ARE NO GOOD IN 2000 AND 2004

BUT NOW THEY ARE ACCURATE

[MADem]

3. Double digits, certainly. That's what all the networks are saying. nt

[doc03]

4. So this time they use the exit polling data

to predict the election. The exit polls been totally unreliable the last several elections, now all of a sudden the MSM is using them and watch they will be dead on too.