US Election Night: Domestic Coverage

Overall though, in the last rush of information ITV have made more calls more quickly than the BBC or Sky (who are way behind).

It's now McCain 34 - Obama 103 according to BBC & ITV with Sky stuck on 32 - 25.

Did anyone notice that ITV's counter had the numbers the wrong way round?

Having lagged significantly behind ABC News, where their info is coming from, through that lot, BBC now appear not to be able to add up - should be 102 not 103 for Obama

EDIT: unless ABC are wrong, of course!

Let me throw in CNN's score at the mo, 34 McCain, 77 Obama

Sky have took theirs off screen now.

I think it must be ABC that can't count.

I'm watching the BBC and finding it all rather dull! David Dimbleby is doing his best with Jeremy Vine but there's not much sense of excitement. Unlike a British election there are very few people in sight! No sense of battle as results are declared. No Paxmanesque interviews with significant politicians.

Am I alone in finding it a bit tedious?

Why are Sky News so slow with the numbers?

Depends where they're coming from - looking on the web CBS haven't called as much stuff as NBC and ABC.

If ABC have called a state that NBC haven't then the BBC can't add, otherwise ABC can't add, because no state has less than three votes.

Fox & CBS have called a state for McCain that neither ABC or NBC, and vice versa, for Sky to have 32 for McCain.

Given NBC have 103, probably right - there was me (foolishly) thinking an American network would be better at this than the BBC!

Because they won't call a state until both Fox and CBS have. Until then they will report their projections but not call them as their own.

The BBC Tower has done a few turns to show senate scores as well.

Assumes NBC and ABC have called the same states for them to both be on 103. We still don't know exactly what ITV's counting rules are but assuming they are on a simple "if NBC call it we call it" rule, then either the BBC or ABC must be wrong.


What we really need, and I'm sure there's one out there somewhere, is a list of which networks have called which states to compare.