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March 02, 2004
| Super Tuesday schedule

From The Green Papers, tomorrow’s poll-closing times…

Georgia: 7:00 p.m. EST
Vermont: 7:00 p.m. EST
Ohio: 7:30 p.m EST
Connecticut: 8:00 p.m. EST
Massachuetts: 8:00 p.m. EST
Maryland: 8:00 p.m. EST
New York: 9:00 p.m. EST
Rhode Island: 9:00 p.m. EST
California: 11:00 p.m. EST

The Green Papers has no specific time info on the Minnesota caucuses, but I read somewhere that those go from 8:00 until 9:00 EST.

The schedule sets us up, probably, for an early resolution to any suspense. Edwards’s #1 “must-win” state, Georgia — also the place he is having his “victory party” — closes its polls early, so we’ll probably know right away if he’s doomed. Crucial Ohio has a time slot all to itself, also quite early. So two of Edwards’s best chances for a win (according to conventional wisdom, if not necessarily the polls) are among the first three states to close their polls.

Unpredictable Minnesota will probably report its results during the no man’s land time slot in between the East Coast and California (appropriately enough), but if Kerry has swept everything back east by then, it won’t even matter if Edwards wins in MN — the press will already have written the story of the night, and only a California upset would have the heft to rewrite that story once it’s written.



Posted by Brendan at March 2, 2004 12:49 AM | TrackBack
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