Hopefully this is Dan’s last election to cover. Fortunately, I only watched about 12 seconds of Dan last night.
2004 Election Night Quotables (latest to earliest):
- “If this election gets any closer someone is going to have to call 911, call the police, call the nurse.”
- “Our coverage continues with Ohio, ‘Hey kimosabe, no one knows.’”
- “It’s enough to give aspirin a headache.”
- “So in Colorado, Pete Coors gets a silver bullet right through his hopes.”
- On closeness of race in some states: “This race is hot enough to peel paint off a house.”
- Still refusing to call Ohio for Bush, Rather says, “Kerry may hear the whisper of the axe if he can’t win Ohio.”
- Rather reacts to NBC’s call for Bush in Ohio: “President Bush’s reelection is at the door, knock, knock, knock.”
- Subtle dig at Fox News which had just projected Bush would win Ohio: “In case you’ve been watching one of those other places that doesn’t have as good of information, here’s what’s happening.”
- “If a frog had side pockets, he’d carry a handgun.”
- On Kerry’s lead in Iowa: “His lead is as thin as turnip soup.”
- Interviewing Joe Lockhart about vote totals showing Kerry behind in Ohio: “I guess you’d rather walk through a furnace in a gasolene suit than concede ohio.” “Does that make your fingernails sweat?”
- After calling FL for Bush: “Kerry can still win it but at this point he’s got his back to the wall, his shirt-tail on fire and a bill collectors at the door.”
- Importance of Pennsylvania: “Ed Bradley, fair or unfair, if John Kerry doesn’t carry Pennsylvania, will it be the equivalent of Death Valley for him?”
- Asking Vanessa Kerry how her father relieves campaign stress: “Does he pace the floor, does he hum Springsteen, what does he do?”
- On CBS’s election coverage: “We’re on these returns like white on rice.”
- “Bush is sweeping through the Midwest like a combine.”
- “In some ways, George Bush’s lead is as thin as November ice.”
- “Ohio now turns into a sauna for both of the candidates. All they can do is wait and sweat.”
- On closeness of race: “This presidential race is hotter than the devil’s anvil.”
