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2000 (NBC)

Kentucky is called

Brokaw: so, we can make our first call of the election season and predict that Al Gore will win the state of Kentucky, with its eight electoral votes. No surprise here, this state is on the border of the heavily Democratic south and the lower Midwest, it is highly unionized and it's been the home of many chief Democratic party strategists and activists. According to our computer analysis of selected precincts we can project that more than 85% of the state's popular vote will go to Al Gore, a huge win in a reliably red state.

Russert: this big win in Kentucky does a lot to undercut Bush's strategy to improve the Republican vote share among blue-collar, evangelical Christians. Bush said in several interviews and on the campaign trail that he was confident he could get more than one-third of the vote in the south, and could carry states like Missouri and Florida handily. Wouldn't you agree Tom?

Brokaw: Definitely. I don't think anyone would ever predict that the election would be close in Kentucky, but nonetheless Bush's current estimated percentage is very low, which gives an indication that the red-dog democrat core still voted overwhelmingly for Gore, and any gain Bush might have had among the evangelical community didn't materialize significantly in this state.

Indiana is called

Brokaw:...sorry to interrupt but I have an important development, the state of Indiana has just been called for Al Gore, giving him another 12 electoral votes. Again, this is a state that has voted Democratic in almost every presidential election, there's no surprise here at all, it's a labor stronghold with a traditionally strong industrial and agricultural base, Bush thought he could draw a few of the red-dog voters here as well, but it appears that there weren't enough to give Bush a shot at winning. Gore is projected in our computer databases to finish with somewhere between 62 and 66 percent of the vote.