[In Maryland]

The MSM already used the "accidental" argument for the 2000 election, when it called the results (rather too early, as it turns out) for Florida before polls were closed in the Panhandle, thereby discouraging Panhandle voters and making the election close enough that Al Gore was almost able to steal it.

Much as the MSM would like to throw this to Mittens, no intelligent person is going to buy that they made a "mistake" again. And the voters in the Panhandle will probably not be discouraged this time.

It was interesting reading a "liberal" book and a "conservative" book on the 2000 election. The liberal "saw no evidence" that "anyone" was discouraged (can't see what you don't look for!); the conservative book had a first person account by a discouraged voter.

[Yosemitest]

I was at the Crestview, FL polls, November 2000 with my wife, standing in line outside the door, waiting for her to vote,
when about three people screamed out,

"They just said Gore won Florida!"
I screamed out back at them,
"Not without my wife's and my vote being counted AGAINST him!
About 30 other people, some still in BDUs shouted after me, "DAMN RIGHT !!! Like hell, Gore won !!! "

You never seen three wrinkled old prunes run away so fast.
Those three old women were so mad.

I laughed about that for years.

[SENTINEL]

"Much as the MSM would like to throw this to Mittens, no intelligent person is going to buy that they made a "mistake" again. And the voters in the Panhandle will probably not be discouraged this time."

Sorry to rain on your parade...but 95% of the military folks in the panhandle were too young to vot in 2000. they are nto going to remember. What worked then will work now.

Romney and his elite globalist buddies will CHEAT CHEAT CHEAT, COUNT ON IT !