To: Publius
That's good.
At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election by Bill Sammon, is a worthwhile nonfiction version.
The short take: Exit polling combined with information on key precincts give the liberal MSM a tremendous advantage in spinning the election in ways that effect voting across different time zones to their advantage. We need a Federal law that forbids election reporting until all polling places in the continental United States have closed.
4 posted on
10/16/2004 11:38:39 AM PDT by
FredZarguna
(Wearing BLACK Pajamas, in honor of Hanoi John)
To: FredZarguna
> We need a Federal law that forbids election reporting
> until all polling places in the continental United
> States have closed.
We need that like we need "campaign finance reform".
The underlying problem is press honesty, and fixing that
is vastly more important than exit polling.
We can expect incorrect exit polling.
We can expect the legacy media to lie about the results,
and attempt to thus influence the election.
Make sure everyone knows.
Beyond that, vote early, like Monday.
I've already voted.
5 posted on
10/16/2004 11:42:48 AM PDT by
Boundless
To: FredZarguna
I'm writing this from a place about 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle and about 150 miles east of the Bering Sea... and it pisses off a lot of Alaskans to go to the polls on election day with hours to go before the polls close and listen to the East Coast states already counting votes and announcing results. How about a national voting time that would be the same for everyone everywhere - let's say closing the polls at 11 p.m. Eastern time and 7 p.m. Alaska time (and 6 p.m. Hawaii time). Then the talking heads would have all the time they need to report the results - and none of the opportunity to influence the vote itself.
13 posted on
10/16/2004 1:59:35 PM PDT by
redpoll
(redpoll)
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