How the Media Got Smarter About Calling Elections.

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      The author looks at the approaches by the mass media to calling the elections in the U.S. Topics mentioned include the reliance of news agency Associated Press (AP) on stringers for the collection of preliminary vote counts, the collaboration among news outlets to share the expense of doing exit polling, and the formation of the National Election Pool by AP and the five major television news networks including Fox News and Cable News Network to improve the election day reporting protocol.