To protect the integrity of the process, we will be waiting until all polls close at 8 to project the winner. Stay tuned!This is said, of course, as the live numbers from the polls are being displayed at the bottom of the screen (as of 7:48, 48% Romney, 31% Gingrich, 13% Santorum, 7% Paul, with 50% reporting.) Nobody needs a team of professionals to figure out what's going to happen.
Rant continues after the jump.
By showing the numbers on the screen, CNN has already violated the "sanctity of the process." The point of waiting until all the polls close to declare the winner is moot if anyone with basic logic skills can figure out the basic result (that Romney will win.)
If CNN was really interested in preserving the sanctity of the process, they would wait for all of the polls to close before releasing vote counts. Announcing numbers before all the polls close could potentially affect the outcome of the primary.
Let's see what happens. I doubt I (or anyone else) will be shocked by the outcome.
UPDATE: CNN waited a whole four (4!) seconds after the last polls closed to announce a winner. I'm so glad they decided to wait.
I loved the completely unnecessary 30 second countdown on the huge 70inch big screen TV... CNN's obsession with cool technologies is starting to really get on my nerves. The one poll I was interested in seeing after the fact was how Floridian women voted, and it seemed to be one of the biggest gaps between Romney and Gingrich as far as other polls went.
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