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Simply Sinclair on Computers and Election Night Thrills
Louis Sinclair critiques computer driven election forecasting noting how networks rush to predict winners, diminishing drama of national election nights. He recalls past delays in declaring outcomes from 1960 Illinois to 1948 Dewey Truman clashes and Roosevelt’s four elections, lamenting modern certainty.
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Walter Cronkite
U.S
Connecticut
Jack Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Illinois
Kennedy
Nixon
Dewey
Chicago Tribune
H.C. Kaltenborn
Truman
Tribune
Kaltenborn