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Are the Exit Pollsters Up To Old Tricks?
National Review Online - The Campaign Spot ^ | 11/4/2008 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 11/04/2008 1:31:20 PM PST by ReagansRaiders

Are the Exit Pollsters Up To Old Tricks?

I noticed this account of an exit pollster in Stafford, Virginia:

08:32 – AP doing exit polling in Stafford. Talking 4 to 1 to minorities over whites at a Republican precinct (Falmouth). Expect it to be skewed. Don’t trust the exit polls as they start to trickle out.

Only an anecdote, but not promising. Are the exit pollsters aiming for egg on their faces two presidential races in a row?

11/04 04:02 PM


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; electionday; exitpolls; polls; virginia
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1 posted on 11/04/2008 1:31:20 PM PST by ReagansRaiders
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To: ReagansRaiders; Admin Moderator

This is breaking news how come?


2 posted on 11/04/2008 1:33:28 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: ReagansRaiders

Exit polling showed Kerry way up in 2004. We can expect the same thing this time with Obama, but McCain will win it!!


3 posted on 11/04/2008 1:34:04 PM PST by Roklok
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To: ReagansRaiders

Do dems lie?


4 posted on 11/04/2008 1:34:16 PM PST by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: ReagansRaiders

I’m not buying anything those bastards in the media are selling. And Team McCain better have its people in Colorado, and New Mexico, Missouri out and about telling folks the exit polls are trash. Don’t believe anything the marxist tell you. It’s all propaganda, all crap.


5 posted on 11/04/2008 1:36:01 PM PST by mainerforglobalwarming
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To: ReagansRaiders

I’m not buying anything those bastards in the media are selling. And Team McCain better have its people in Colorado, and New Mexico, Missouri out and about telling folks the exit polls are trash. Don’t believe anything the marxist tell you. It’s all propaganda, all crap.


6 posted on 11/04/2008 1:36:01 PM PST by mainerforglobalwarming
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To: ReagansRaiders
Are the exit pollsters aiming for egg on their faces two presidential races in a row?

No. Preparing the basis for a phony legal challenge.

7 posted on 11/04/2008 1:37:54 PM PST by marron
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To: ReagansRaiders

“Are the Exit Polls Up To Old Tricks?”

Do birds fly?

Is Hussein a Muslim Communist?

Does Rosie O’Donnell eat Krispy Kreme donuts?


8 posted on 11/04/2008 1:38:21 PM PST by This Just In
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To: ReagansRaiders

Bear Catholic Pope woods


9 posted on 11/04/2008 1:38:54 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Sen. McCain brings a lifetime of experience to the White House; Sen. Obama brings a speech)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Will AP ever stop?

When we win, AP and NYT will be big losers...


10 posted on 11/04/2008 1:39:11 PM PST by CycloneGOP
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To: ReagansRaiders

NRO has a hell of a nerve even bringing up this subject. They were among those who published the bogus exit polls during the middle of the day in 2004 without ever looking at the data which made it obvious in 3 seconds the polls were complete garbage.


11 posted on 11/04/2008 1:39:24 PM PST by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: ReagansRaiders

Right. I see it on TeeVee all day....

Some reporter in Missouri. When I think of Missouri, I think of cows. (I don’t know why) But a reporter in Missouri goes to StLouis.....inner city StLouis....and interviews 8 black voters. All of them give the “change” BS line and the reporter calls Missouri for Obama right there.

They want change. What... getting up at noon and doing nothing all day is too hard????


12 posted on 11/04/2008 1:43:55 PM PST by envisio (If you ain't laughin yet... you ain't seen me naked. 8^O)
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Remember that Republicans usually refuse to be exit polled!


13 posted on 11/04/2008 1:48:24 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: NonValueAdded

Catholic Bears Pope in the Woods?...........


14 posted on 11/04/2008 1:49:09 PM PST by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: envisio

Well, you can think of cows, horses, hills, plains, rivers, lakes in Missouri. Corn, wheat soybeans...hillbillies, Baptists...Real America. Missouri is deeply Red outside of KC, St. Louis and sometimes Columbia/Jeff City, although they actually went for Bush in ‘04.

Here’s how important Missouri is, and it’s not in urban St. Louis. It’s the Southwest Missouri Ozarks.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=68D87089-18FE-70B2-A8BE915FD3A08E5B


15 posted on 11/04/2008 1:49:43 PM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: envisio

It’s like a job. Everybody wants a job until they actually have to go to work.

Everybody thinks they want change until they get it — nobody likes change.


16 posted on 11/04/2008 1:50:19 PM PST by ichabod1 (You won't know obammunism is here until it puts a boot in your (fat) bottom.)
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To: ReagansRaiders
They always lie. But the real poll today, the one
which will hurt them the most,
the one which they will delay the most to report
so as to discourage conservatives out West from voting,
will be the results from Pennsylvania,
the barometer of what is to come.

Most likely:
they will only report from the DNC/ACORN/BlackPanther controlled
-- nightstick- and terror-controlled--- cities.

17 posted on 11/04/2008 1:50:29 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Do bears **** in the woods?

I have seen nothing to indicate the MSM and Pollsters have learned anything from 2004. If anything, they’ve lost even more credibility.

It’s true that Conservatives don’t talk to pollsters as much. An Exit Poller in my precinct (very conservative) was lamenting that nobody was talking to him.


18 posted on 11/04/2008 1:51:07 PM PST by Tigercap (If 0bama had the experience of Palin, he too might be qualified to run for VP of the USA)
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To: xcamel
Do dems lie?

No!

They are a lie...

19 posted on 11/04/2008 1:51:58 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: ReagansRaiders

Contact the AP and tell them you have observed their bias polling. Report it to Drudge, FoxNews and others. Fight them back at their own game. I’ve been writing to these people for weeks - does it help, maybe not but it is a small thing I can try and do to help.


20 posted on 11/04/2008 1:53:11 PM PST by kezzek
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