Suddenly last week, election coverage was less about psychology and social science and more about simple math. The Election Day failure of Voter News Service to provide the extensive exit-polling data intended to avoid a repeat of the 2000 debacle left the nets shifting into their panic modes and their myriad journalists and analysts talking about real results and real numbers. But there was a bright side to all of that. The lack of VNS's data probably made it easier for the networks to exercise the caution and restraint they'd been promising since they blew the call during the 2000 presidential election.
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