Super Tuesday: Election night race calling…
NPR’s David Folkenflik writes about race projections and interviews FNC’s David Rhodes…
A few long blocks away, at Fox News Channel’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, executive David Rhodes shows me around the decision desk. That’s where Michael Barone, who’s overseeing the network’s team of academics, political researchers and journalists, will stand and explain to viewers exactly how they’re making predictions.
Rhodes says there’s a lingering memory that accounts for the caution: Election Night 2000, when networks predicted who had won Florida. Twice. And had to withdraw it. Both times.
“This is tougher than a general election,” Rhodes says of tonight’s Super Tuesday primaries.
