Van Hollen calls NBC projection of House "A Mistake"

[book_worm]

Hmm, lets see how things work out. I'm sure we lost house, but maybe not by as much as NBC believes??

[8 track mind]

1. thats what i thought.

seemed a bit premature

[Wickerman]

2. The mistake, margin aside

is calling it before the friggin' polls close in the West.

[book_worm]

5. very true.

[Grown2Hate]

15. EXACTLY!!! And I LOVE Lawrence O'Donnell for making a VERY clear statement

to that effect... essentially said that he would HATE for this projection to dissuade anyone out west from still GETTING THE HELL OUT and voting.

[Hepburn]

3. IMO...we are gonna hold the House!!!!

Come on...think it into reality!

[Kdillard]

4. I really have no clue what is going on. Is he seeing something that they

are missing?

[book_worm]

7. could be a couple of things...

1) the margin they are calling it for the GOP is off and/or 2) they shouldn't have called it before polls closed in the west.

[BeyondGeography]

6. That's why they say +/- 13 seats

So they can say they were right, even when they're wrong.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. we have been doing much better than predicted

[FBaggins]

12. Better than who predicted? Dick Morris?

We're right dead in the center of most of the most respected predictions.

I don't know whether it's 55-60-65 seats right now, but it sure looks like it's in that range. Which matches Cook... Silver... Sabato... Rothenberg, etc. predictions.

[book_worm]

17. Is all you do is go around to threads and shit on them?

[FBaggins]

18. When it's raining sh1t... don't blame the guy who points it out.

Does it make you feel better to attack the messenger? Fine... it's cheaper than scotch and better for your health. :)

[myrna minx]

9. Why would they call such a thing before the polls close?

It depresses the vote!

[sad sally]

21. because those in power who call political races have NEVER cared about

those States "out west." As a first-time voter - 40 plus years ago - I learned that my vote never counted...why bother?

[Politicub]

10. I heard that! It shook Keith up

[8 track mind]

13. can you tell me what happened?

[defendandprotect]

11. Considering Fox 2000 and computers being used as crystal balls now ...

maybe we should go back to reporting ACTUAL vote tallies -- ???

[CreekDog]

14. He's not necessarily lying...the margins may be what he's disagreeing with

MSNBC's seemed exaggerated and hasty.

[budkin]

16. Wishful thinking

[Phoonzang]

20. +1

[Trocadero]

19. .