You may be thinking that I'm being a bit premature, but that's not my headline. It's the headline of the New Mexico Sun News that hit the streets a few days ago. Why would they print such a headline more than a week before the election?
The New Mexico Sun News is a bi-monthly newspaper, and they needed to go to press with their October 26-November 8 edition. They would not have another edition until days after the election was over, and by then they would have been "scooped" by nearly every newspaper in America. So they decided to do something about that.
To explain the headline, the editors of the paper wrote, “When it comes to calling the winner of a presidential election, everyone wants to be first. The New Mexico Sun News hereby claims that achievement.” The paper did go on to urge its readers to get out and vote "even if it did spoil the ending for you."
But the newspaper is not the only entity that has already decided the election is over. A couple of weeks ago, the largest bookie in Ireland also declared Obama the winner and paid off on their bets. The largest Obama bet they paid on was 100,000 euros.
I'm hoping both the bookie and the newspaper are right.
Don't forget the infamous 1948 headline in the Chicago Daily Tribune: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to pick up a copy of that issue of the New Mexico Sun News, just in case it becomes a collector's item. :)