2006 Midterms: Caution is advised…
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz writes about how the networks say they will be cautious as the results from the 2006 Midterms come in…
Much of the action will be on cable news. The broadcast networks are limiting themselves to hour-long specials at 10 p.m. (plus ABC’s “Nightline” at 11:30 p.m.), along with news cut-ins and updated specials (mainly for West Coast audiences) at 1 a.m. “It’s going to be a long night,” says Marty Ryan, executive producer at Fox News, which is doing some exit polling to supplement the network pool surveys. “House races are notoriously difficult to call. How do you call 50 House races? The fact of the matter is, you don’t. You have to wait until a lot of returns are in.”
Frankly,” says Sam Feist, CNN’s political director, “we’re not in any rush to call individual House races. Our mantra is simple: It’s better to be right than to be first. We’re going to be extremely cautious.”
