Election Night 2008 - Dan Rather Reports (HDNet) - 1 of 3
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[0:13] [Music]
[0:29] Good evening. and welcome to HDNet and
[0:31] Dan Ruther Reports live coverage of
[0:33] election night 2008. The polls have just
[0:36] closed in Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana,
[0:39] South Carolina, Vermont uh and Virginia.
[0:43] There are some very early returns coming
[0:45] in uh in the race for president from two
[0:48] of those states, Kentucky and Indiana,
[0:51] mostly because the polls closed in
[0:53] portions of those states a little bit
[0:54] earlier on. But frankly, the early vote
[0:57] returns, they're so small and so
[0:59] scattered that not draw any conclusions
[1:02] from them at all. You know, for almost
[1:04] two years now, we've seen history in the
[1:06] making. Historic candidacies buying in a
[1:08] historically long and dramatic campaign,
[1:12] spending historic amounts of cash along
[1:13] the way, at least two, possibly three
[1:17] billion dollars when it's all counted
[1:19] up. And it all comes down to tonight.
[1:22] Tonight, history will be made. We're on
[1:24] the precipice of history here. Now, I
[1:27] recognize that other places and in other
[1:29] ways you may be hearing or seeing
[1:31] guesses, estimates, some very early poll
[1:34] results. Let's review where we are now.
[1:37] The polls have just closed in at least
[1:39] two states that could be indicators of
[1:42] how the evening is going. And those two
[1:43] states uh would be Virginia and Indiana.
[1:47] There are some early returns from those
[1:50] states, just a few thousand votes. Now,
[1:52] in Indiana, that's a state that has
[1:55] historically gone for the Republican
[1:57] presidential candidate, as is the case
[1:59] with Virginia. So, if you say, why is
[2:00] Dan Rather, anybody else saying, here's
[2:02] a call in K