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Originally Posted by thenry
from previous elections over here i remember the person who starts the night well always goes on to be beaten by the other favourite ?
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Doesn't work that way in the US. Here it's because we don't have the same system and the 'swing' tends to hold across the country so if a party is up by a certain amount of % we can usually guess where the election will go.
In America it really does depend on the state by state. Not a single state that matters has been called yet so we simply don't know.
Basically for this early part of the evening you want to see where Virginia and Florida go, they are expected to go to Romney. If Obama wins Virginia then life will be very difficult for Romney and it will be over if Obama then wins Ohio too.
If Obama wins Florida then it's over pretty much.