Thread:Comments:Australian Broadcasting Corporation plans to call California for Obama before polls close/How is this news?/reply

In Australia, this would have been illegal had they done it during the Australian elections. At the same time, calling states before they close and some results in has been problematic. (See Bush v Gore for instance.) None of the USA networks had their electoral vote election maps with states up before the polls actually closed. --LauraHale (talk) 20:38, 7 November 2012 (UTC)