Posted on 11/21/2004 4:13:08 AM PST by prairiebreeze
NEW YORK - The consortium of news organizations that runs the election exit polls has voted to delay distributing data for several hours on future election days. Exit poll data will not be distributed until after 4 p.m. ET to the organizations that have paid for it: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and The Associated Press, NBC’s elections director, Sheldon Gawiser, said Thursday. On Nov. 2, the companies conducting the polls, Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, distributed the first wave of exit poll data at 1 p.m., and the numbers were immediately leaked on the Internet and to the campaigns. Those initial numbers suggested that Sen. John Kerry had slight leads in Florida and Ohio, battleground states that were won by President Bush when the votes were actually counted.
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Good morning.
It would be even better if nothing was reported until the last poll closed. But this is a start.
JUNK EXIT POLLS NOW!
Whatsb wrong with waiting till the day after the election and finding who won? Stop all the BS lets hear the final tally the next day .
Pretty funny how they try to shift responsibility for the debacle caused by the exit polls to the internet bloggers and not to the pollsters, media and funders of the polls themselves. Good morning.
Prairie
Have they not figured out that the people are fed up with their exit polls and simply not telling them the truth...
The only purpose of an exit poll is to provide a partisan media a tool to manipulate voters. Not only should they be banned, but I would favor the elimination of a state-by-state electoral projection until all polls were closed.
Waiting for actual and accurate results will NOT endanger the republic.
Fast food mentality rules the "culture".
“There were an awful lot of people on the Internet talking about things they don’t understand,”’ said Gawiser, head of the news organizations’ steering committee."
It's been frustrating to hear even FNC staffers let that particular lie go by unchallenged.
Not since the Marines blasted through the defensive berms on their way to Kuwait City in '91 to the tune of "the Marine Hymn", the '94 congressional election Republican take-over and the 2002 election surprise repudiation of the Dummocrat obstructionist policy have I enjoyed watching a program as much as I enjoyed watching that chimp Rather's face sag as the actual votes started mounting in Dubya's favor.
God, that felt so good.
And they'll only be released, ooooops, when they serve Dem ends.
It really won't matter because I think voters are lying to the pollsters, which is only fair because the media lies to the voters every day. Maybe one day we will go back to the pre-polls way of doing things...counting the votes on election day and then announcing the winners.
So True!
Only exit polls we heard about ( I was working at a voting precinct - we were in a school library - so we logged onto the internet - had no radio or TV ) we saw Drudge headlines that had sKerry WAY AHEAD but he was truthful - unlike the demoncraps - and he said to keep in mind that in 2000 exit polls had Gore way ahead, too.....
A better idea---ban "exit polls" completely.
That was fun.
These exit polls have proven themselves, at best, grossly inaccurate. Perhaps the MSM would save some credibility by simply scrapping them.
With the advent of electronic voting, you've got a pretty good idea of who is winning using the actual vote results within a few hours of the polls closing anyway. Even with that information, no one in the MSM was willing to provide a clear opinion on the results of the election until pretty much the next day.
Heck, anyone on FR could have done a better job at analyzing the election results than the MSM did.
Also, I was listening to Rush and he told us to ignore the exit polls entirely.
LOL. It's not just the exit polls. The media helped build John Kerry's campaign by giving him a total pass on his VietNam service issues, anti-war activities and his Senate voter record. Without that propping Bush would have slaughtered him. Kerry should never have gotten close to running for President and yet look where he ended up.
Just goes to show how much the media NEEDS a horse-race election and if one isn't there, then by God, they'll create one. More theatrical manipulation injected into our lives and destinies....
Prairie
Exactly. Why is there any need to release ANYTHING until it is known who won? I say they shouldn't release exit polls or actual voting results until all of the precincts have given their results. I'd be able to go to bed early the night of the election :) (yeah i know... the media would throw a fit)
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