Karl Rove- Election Night 2000

Here is Karl Rove talking on CNN the night of the 2000 election, focusing his efforts on Florida.

Rove is upset that major news stations had already called Florida for Gore before all of the votes were in. He then goes on a big rant about how Republicans are winning the vote count in most of the counties, by "a substantial amount" and are doing better than he had predicted. He even talks about the controversial Florida counties such as Miami-Dade and how the Republicans are doing much better than he had anticipated. Looking back now, it's a different story and we know why Bush was ahead in those counties and the voting catastrophe that ensued. But Rove does make an important point about the election coverage by major news stations and their willingness to jump the gun on calling state as well as election winners. Things would have gone a little smoother, I believe, if the major news stations didn't continue to go back and forth in calling Florida for Gore than Bush and so on. Even watching the election this year, news stations were calling the states for McCain or Obama right after the polls had closed. Apparently they didn't learn from their debacle in calling Florida in 2000.