In the 2nd Congressional District Race, Ron Lewis was waiting for Mike Weaver to make a concession speech before coming out and declaring victory. WHAS-TV reporter Sean Bartel kept asking the Lewis folks when they were going to have their candidate talk so he could wrap up his story and get back to Louisville. They said "we're waiting on Weaver". So our intrepid reporter, Bartel, tracked down Weaver who was at a party in Elizabethtown, not far from Lewis'. Here's the gist of that conversation, according to Bartel:

Bartel: When are you going to concede?
Weaver: I don't know, should I?
Bartel: That's your call.
Weaver: Well, what are you hearing?
Bartel: The results show you're down 9 with more than 70-percent of the precincts in.
Weaver: I guess we better concede then.

Reporters really do know more than the candidates much of the time.

And on a sadder note, reporter Joe Arnold was interviewing Mike Sodrel on election night, asking him if he'd called Baron Hill to congratulate Hill on his victory in Indiana's 9th District race. Sodrel told Arnold he didn't plan to call Hill. Why not? Because Sodrel didn't want to be a phony and congratulate the opponent he'd come to disrespect and hate. My first reaction was, what a sore loser. But the other side of me thought "what a refreshing change, a politician who tells us what he really thinks and feels". You may not like Sodrel's politics but reporters did find him rather refreshing. He's a regular guy (a rich one) who happened to find his way to Congress. My guess is he's seen the underside of politics, and what it did to him, and won't run again.