For one minute, McCain won California

November 5, 2008 – 10:17 am

It was quite interesting to see all of the interactive election maps that news websites had created for last night’s election. I spent most of my night following CNN on tv at Nelson’s house while monitoring 4 or 5 other interactive maps on my laptop.

Of course I also had to follow the Fox News map. I didn’t notice any bias in their state projections throughout the night, except for one huge exception:

At about 7:50pm, just before the California polls closed, I loaded up the Fox News map. To my surprise California was colored red! Woah! 

I hovered over the state and John McCain’s name was also highlighted and checked! At this time last night, the only chance McCain had to win was some sort of a miracle. Something like, oh, him winning California…

However, even if McCain did win California in Fox News land, he still would have have come up short.

I took this screenshot since I knew it was probably an error and sure enough upon page reload it was back to uncalled.

Still funny though.