Has any US cable or network news reported Berlusconi lost the election?

[NNN0LHI]

I haven't heard one single report so far.

Don

[goclark]

1. I saw a post that he was gaining :(

[kenny blankenship]

2. It won't be an official report until

Prodi loses.

[madokie]

3. article in todays tulsa world, says berlusconi was wanting a recount

I would bet its not over

[dogday]

4. What I have read is that he lost by a hair and he

wants a recount... Shades of Florida 2000

[xultar]

5. CNN said that the Exit Polls indicated he lost on election day.

[90-percent]

6. Exit Polls

How quaint!

-85% Jimmy

[MADem]

7. DEMOCRACY NOW has this:

Berlusconi is now refusing to admit he lost the election to Romano Prodi. He is calling for a recount of thousands of disputed ballots. Berlusconi lost by just 25,000 votes making this the closest Italian race in living memory. Meanwhile, Prodi has announced plans to move ahead in forming a new government and has rejected Berlusconi's call to form a German-style grand coalition.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/12/140202

And it is beginning to look a lot like FLORIDA:

...Meanwhile, the Berlusconi camp disputes some 43 000 votes in the race for the lower house of the Italian Parliament, where the Union's margin of victory was only 25 000 votes out of a total of nearly 38-million ballots cast.

...While observers widely ruled out foul play in the vote, local officials on Wednesday reported the discovery of five ballot boxes containing hundreds of ballots outside a polling station in a working-class district of Rome.

"At this stage in the investigation it appears that the ballots had been properly tallied, so there's no need to question the regularity of the vote. But the city has asked for a speedy investigation to find out what happened," said municipal official Giovanni Hermanin....
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=269158

And does THIS sound familiar??????

IT ALL has a familiar ring to Americans: An excruciating close election, demands for recounts amid charges of irregularities, a leader refusing to concede and the prospect that the ultimate result may end up in the Supreme Court.

It may take weeks for the result to become official, but it appears the center-left coalition led by Romano Prodi has narrowly won both houses of the Italian parliament.

The big question is whether a numerical edge will translate into real control in a deeply divided nation. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sounding anything but conciliatory on Tuesday. "No one now can say they have won," he declared, ticking off alleged irregularities that included spoiled ballots and glitches in the delivery of results from outlying villages. .....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/12/EDG9FI7K641.DTL