Daily Iowa Insider: Affecting the outcome

It turns out that television networks could impact the vote totals in Iowa.  From Politico via Political Wire:

"Instead of waiting for actual votes to be counted on the night of theJan. 3 Iowa caucus, a consortium of the major TV networks and TheAssociated Press will conduct an entrance poll to measure how peoplesay they will vote," The Politico reports.

"Those results will be broadcast long before the official vote is announced and, in some cases, before the voting is finished."

Hopefully no caucus locations have televisions running at the time.  Otherwise, if totals show Hillary Clinton in the lead, will that let some wind out of the balloon for Obama-leaning supporters.

Comments

[Jon]

Seems like a piss poor idea no matter who you're pulling for. Sounds like the media is positioning itself to affect the official result and play king maker.