Mara Liasson Quotes
Hillary Clinton has had a small but persistent lead since June - anywhere from 2 to 5 points. The stock markets and the election betting pools are predicting a Clinton win.
Liasson, Mara. "A Viewer's Guide To Election Night 2016." NPR, National Public Radio, 8 Nov. 2016.
Utley made the statement on election night of 1948 when HG Kaltenborn and must other pundits observed that Truman’s early lead was not big enough to overcome the results of the rural precincts which were slower to report and most assumed went heavily for Dewey. Utley, however, had conducted his own exit poll in the Chicago region and found that people who supported Dewey, when they got into the voting booth just could not support him. He appears to be the first journalist to call the election for Truman.
Nussbaum was her boss at the time. She was working as a staffer for the Congressional committee that was investigating the possible impeachment of Richard M. Nixon.
Mara Liasson is an American journalist and political pundit. She is the national political correspondent for NPR and also a contributor at Fox News Channel.
