A Guide for Watching Election Night Results

[laststeamtrain]

A Guide for Watching Election Night Results
By Thomas B. Edsall, Huffington Post
Posted on November 3, 2008, Printed on November 3, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.huffingtonpost.com//105947/

For those obsessed with the results on Tuesday night, here is a November 4 guide to watching television and searching exit poll data on the web.

There are three basic questions (with hundreds more to follow in the weeks ahead): 1) When can you feel confident about the outcome of the presidential contest?; 2) How well are Democrats progressing toward their goal of 60 seats in the Senate?; and 3) Will 2008 be another Democratic blowout, signaling the possibility that the party could establish a majority coalition in future elections?