The 2012 presidential election is still more than two weeks away, but
on Friday a CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the race for President
Barack Obama.
For 17 seconds, Phoenix, Arizona CBS News affiliate KPHO ran a lower
third graphic that showed that Obama had won the Nov. 6 election over
Gov. Mitt Romney with 99% of the precincts reporting. The lower third
graphic appeared around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, during an episode of “The
People’s Court.”
The CBS News graphic showed Obama winning the election with 43
percent of the vote nationwide to Romney’s 40 percent -– or 40,237,966
votes to 38,116,216. It is unclear who garnered the other 17 percent in
the fictional election results.
KPHO’s general manager did not return The Daily Caller’s request for comment by time of publication. From the Daily Caller:
Hmmmm, now who would go thru the trouble of creating this graphic? Was this some sort of test or something?
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