Dingell to TV News Bosses: Don't Call Election Early

House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) has written letters to the top national broadcast and cable television networks calling on them to hold off projecting the winner of the presidential election Tuesday night until all polls nationwide are closed. He said that any early naming of a winner could depress voting in the rest of the nation. Polling places in Hawaii are open until 6 p.m., which would mean that under the proposal the networks couldn't declare a winner until midnight East Coast time. Letters went to Jeff Zucker, prexy-chief exec of NBC Universal; Leslie Moonves, president of CBS Corp.; Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group; News Corp. prexy Peter Chernin; Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide; Roger Ailes, chairman and chief exec of Fox News; and Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC.