- Poignant final words from Davis, and that’s a wrap
- Crist speech over, the real party begins
- Davis entourage takes the podium
- Crist goes on before Davis’ concession speech
- Davis concedes
- Maps are bleeding
- ‘Tude takes a downturn at Davis camp
- Crist about to give victory speech
- Waiting game at the Crist headquarters
- MSNBC barely makes a ripple
- Busanky concedes
- Fat lady HASN’T sung, Davis camp insists
- What, us worry?
- Crist Wins Says MSNBC, AP
- Keeping hope alive at the Davis camp
From Anthony McCartney: Better weather provides a burst of energy at the polls. The supporters are getting their second winds.
From Julie Pace: Sen. Martinez takes on a laundry list of reporters’ questions.
Sen. Mel Martinez spent about 30 minutes entertaining questions from reporters. The questions centered around a few key topics: the closing gap between Crist and Davis, the Republican party’s seeming lack of support for Katherine Harris, and the fact that Crist chose not to attend an event with President Bush in Pensacola last night. Here’s what Martinez had to say on those topics: (audio coming)—Julie Pace
From Keith Cate: What it’s like to broadcast from Crist’s campaign party—no Crist, but lots of TV reporters talking at the same time.
From Rod Carter: Nelson is at home eating dinner, but his staff tries to feed the media hounds.
From Anthony McCartney: Worries about rain affecting voter turnout dissipate along with the clouds.
From Annette Mardis: An uncooperative touch screen and the din of conversation disturbed voters at an Oldsmar poll.
From Julie Pace: Two hours before the Crist party, Stan the Bartender stands ready to serve.
From Karen Branch-Brioso: One Wimauma voters says fear of higher property taxes keep him from buying a home. He’s picking candidates who made their cases on that issue.
Peter Bernard: Busansky and Bilirakis point to each other for the negative campaigns they ran.
Julie Pace: Sen. Mel Martinez is getting ready to face a bank of news cameras for the 5 p.m. live broadcasts.
Jackie Barron: Katherine Harris waves and glows while her tense staff issues orders.
It’s raining. It’s pouring. But anyone causing real problems for voters is snoring. So sayeth the legal eagles at the U.S. Attorneys Office, who, as of 4:30 p.m., are reporting no fraud.
Food fuels the election night army. This election night, the folks at the party for Democrat Jim Davis are not guaranteed a victory, but they are pretty much guaranteed a good nosh. So says News Channel 8 reporter Samara Sodos.
Election night. You gotta love it. At this point in the night, reporters are talking to reporters. Here’s a slice of that life.
He likes it. He really likes it. U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, the former shuttle astronaut running against Katherine Harris to hold on to his seat, likes the speech he has planned tonight. News Channel 8’s Rod Carter listens in…
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