Polls Now Say Italy Race Too Close to Call

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Exit polls indicated Monday that the Italian parliamentary election pitting center-left economist Romano Prodi against flamboyant billionaire Premier Silvio Berlusconi was too close to call. Projections showed Berlusconi's coalition leading in the Senate, but the two sides running neck-and-neck in the lower Chamber of Deputies.

Based on 86 percent of pollster Nexus' sampling, Berlusconi's alliance won 157 Senate seats, compared with Prodi's 152. The margin of error for the sample was between 1 and 3 percentage points.

Also, the projections did not account for six seats chosen by Italians abroad.

Prodi postponed a news conference after the latest projections were released.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/italy_election

[tridim]

1. This is starting to sound very familiar n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Thanks Diebold!

Why am I not surprised that a right winger in Italy may be stealing an election?

[jsamuel]

3. exactly like 2004

[MrModerate]

4. Does Diebold have an Italian franchise? n/t

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

5. He Who Counts The Votes....

"Today, we've secretly replaced the votes placed by Italian citizens, with these votes which were specially selected by the King george/King berlusconi theocracies.

Let's see if our Italian sheep can taste the difference."

[Jose Diablo]

6. Here it comes. n/t