In the 1984 presidential election, all the major television networks used computers to predict that Republican Ronald Reagan would defeat Democrat Walter Mondale, even before the polls closed on the West Coast. When they heard this news, some Mondale supporters who had been waiting in line to vote simply went home without voting. Although the national election was already settled, the TV networks may have influenced the results of some statewide and local elections. Debate the following proposition: “In presidential elections polls should close at the same time everywhere in the United States.”