[Setting: modern newsroom with thousands of TVs in the background. Talking heads abound the newsroom. The camera focuses in on one of them.]
So I think at this point a tie in the Electoral College is impossible and it will never get to the House. Is that correct? Is a tie impossible?
[Turns to another talking head]
[Picks up paper and pen and starts scribbling]
Well, right now it's two fourty two to two fourty two and you need twenty-eight to win but if you take Florida with twenty-five, you carry the one over and then if you add in Nevada and Wisconsin you …
[Talking over TALKING HEAD #2]
I'm sorry I asked the question. I must apologize to the American public about this. I'm so sorry I asked the question.