Florida predicted for Gore. For Bush. For Gore. For Bush. (Happily, after the west coast polls closed)
10% of the delgates selected, and 8 months before the convention, the media puts Kerry as the candidate. and 90% of the votes aren't even cast!
Talk about media influence on the democratic process. These guys get paid by the word.
CNN, MSNBC, Charlie Rose, everybody, racing to be right. And having a lot of the power to make things come out quite as they "predicted", gathering favors, now, on the chance their pick will win. And they helped.
They are not reporting, they are campaigning, they are pull reporting, push reporting, now reporting 24/7 on Kerry.
The media have a serious vested interest in the outcome.