About Time?

In what apparently was a nail-biter, "The final piece in the U.S. election puzzle fell into place on Tuesday when New Mexico became the last state to determine a winner in the Nov. 2 presidential poll". Luckily it came out the way every one thought it would... On November 2nd; "George W. Bush won the sparsely populated state". You have to like the way that Reuters uses 'sparsely' like that's a bad thing. In New Mexico now, I look out the window and I see not much but that's what I was looking forward too when I left the "Big City" last night. Of course, I have to make sure not to look left or else that sparse population is interupted all of a sudden, I guess Reuters has only seen pictures of New Mexico from my right. Reuters also loves to point out, "While most states only took a few hours to count tens of millions of votes to determine the winner in their elections, New Mexico had trouble declaring a winner". Comparisons to 2000 come up; "It took state officials about a month to sort out the winner in 2000, when Democrat Al Gore carried the state by 366 votes -- the closest margin in the country." And to just be sure, Reuters of course reminds the reader that in 2000; "Bush won the presidential election". How Helpful. Reading the whole thing (I'm a glutton for punishment), it seems that the 'News Service' needed X amount of words and can't seem to write X amount of words without being condescending and snobbish. Big surprise there.