SkyPilot wrote: Dan's meltdown with Ed Bradley was painful to watch.
It was fun to watch Dan squirm, desperately trying to gerrymander and cherrypick enough votes for Kerry out of obscure districts of CBS's Ohio prop map.
Posted on 11/03/2004 3:58:23 PM PST by burwellstark
I can't believe what I just heard on CBS Evening news with Dan. They are blaiming bloggers for the inaccurate poll numbers and the artificial Kerry confidence yesterday.
I hope someone had got that on a MPEG, I love Schadenfreud on occasion.
Most of the media deserves a slap.
Drudge and NRO ran with those numbers. The MSM Knew of them and refused to hand Bush his states partly on the basis results conflicted. They are all to blame, just as those that believed them so readily are to blame.
The real question is whether tampering was done with the numbers, and who did it.
Drudge has a track record of snatching defeat from certain victory, going all the way back to the Lewinsky scandal. NRO were fools for not trusting those numbers emailed to them by a neurotic fussyfoot who probably got it while surfing moonbat lefty websites.
I have to say, though, it was great watching the meltdown when it turned out those numbers were crapola.
I thought Rove's use of the CIA mind control rays in Ohio was creative. Adding the mind altering chemicals to the water supply in Florida was also very effective.
On Fox, Barone said they decided that the poll numbers weren't agreeing with the real numbers they were getting so they chose to omit the poll numbers from their state projections. Said it made an immediate 5 to6 point swing for Bush. cbs apparenty chose to continue to use their bogus poll data.
SkyPilot wrote: Dan's meltdown with Ed Bradley was painful to watch.
It was fun to watch Dan squirm, desperately trying to gerrymander and cherrypick enough votes for Kerry out of obscure districts of CBS's Ohio prop map.
We are lucky those idiots did not cost us the election...
This reply is my favorite thus far. Have you read Christopher Buckley's "Little Gren Men"?
Maybe they actually helped us by motivating our base and making sure they got out to vote. Who knows how it played out. The point is, do you think anyone is gonna own up to the mistake? Not hardly. Even Ziggy is not admitting his mistake.
curses!
if only terry mcauliff (and where the hell is HE right now) had made enough tinfoil beanies!
Michael Barone thinks the Rats got a hold of the locations of the exit pollers and sent it shills to "slam" the poll to suppress Rep turn out. I think he may be right. Otherwise, the pollers were biased and skewed the sample intentionally. Either way it was obvious the data was garbage. I did a quick sanity check and immediately knew the data was NFG. I am no genius. I am an engineer and a basic tenant of anyone who deals with data is to perform a "sanity check" of the results. If they are way outside expectations you stop and find out way. If you can't find a reason, you question the source of the data. Short of pictures of Bush with a boy or farm animal on the front page of the NYT, nothing explained the results they had.
when did this delight occur?
I always miss the really good stuff :(
Personally I like Michael Barone's explanation tonight on Fox News - that some 'rat operative found out where the polls were going to be done and sent out about a hundred campaign staff to "vote" in those locations and then volunteer to answer the questionnaire - the MSM had better like that explanation too - it lets them off the hook......
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| Posted by paudio On News/Activism 11/03/2004 6:11:18 AM CST · 116 replies · 1,060+ views Mitofsky International ^ Mitofsky International is a survey research company founded by Warren J. Mitofsky in 1993. Its primary business is conducting exit polls for major elections around the world. It does this work exclusively for news organizations. Mitofsky has directed exit polls and quick counts since 1967 for almost 3,000 electoral contests in United States, Mexico, Russia and the Philippines. .... From 1967 to 1990, Mitofsky was executive director of the CBS News election and survey unit, and was an executive producer of its election night broadcasts. He conducted the first exit polls for CBS in 1967, and developed the projection and... |
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Some other post has the pictures---you should see them.
Let's HOPE SO
Barone actually had a strange take on it. He felt that mid-level Kerry operatives may have tried to "slam" the exit poll by going over to the mall and recruiting Kerry voters, then herding them toward the poll-takers. I haven't heard this Mitofsky's name yet, except here.
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