Kristol: Exit Polls Undercounting Bush Votes?

Newsmax.com ^ | 11/02/04 | Bill Kristol

[texasmountainman]

Exit polls may be systematically undercounting Bush votes,Fox News Channel Analyst Bill Kristol said Tuesday night.

[texasmountainman]

Bill Kristol=Sherlock Holmes?

What a brilliant deduction! Who would have thought?

[falcon1966]

no s#$%, Sherlock

[LegalEagle61]

Gee, all of us thought that off the bat...will they be calling us to become analysts? LOL

[meow]

No really?!?!!?!?

[wai-ming]

I hope he's right. That means that in reality, there are more votes for Bush.

[Arkinsaw]

Why? A lot of it is Democrats....going into the polls.....in the quiet privacy they look at that red switch......they contemplate......they say.......hmmmmm, nobody will ever know......my friends won't know........click for Bush.......when asked outside.......oh yeah, I voted for Kerry.

[Brett66]

He had to counter shrill Susan Estrich's comments about exit polls.

[Mamzelle]

My DH had a simple and very cogent comment on why exit polling isn't working, and won't ever work--he said, "Republicans don't like talking to jerks, and most reporters are jerks. They want to vote and go home. Democrats never shut up, so they'll stand and BS all night with the reporters."

[muawiyah]

It's more like this ~ if you have to show an ID to vote, there will simply be fewer Democrats and more Republicans end up voting.

[Disambiguator]

I recall hearing Rush Limbaugh exhorting people to "keep lying to exit pollers!"

This was at least 4 years ago, but maybe some sneaky underhanded Republican voters are heeding his advice. (snicker)

[avital2]

i heard them discussing on Fox how the exit polls worked very well for the media during the primaries -- but in the primaries you don't have absentee ballots, early voting, etc which make exit polls in the regular election, apparently, quite off the mark. seems simple to me.

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, and old Billy said earlier, "Like it or not, exit polls are very accurate."

What a clown.

[TexasGus]

LEFTWING BASTARDS

[Sociopathocracy]

Republicans have to get to work or home to their families.

[bannie]

Estrich sure bought a new face! She is entirely unrecognizable.

[muawiyah]

The Evangelical vote turned out this time. When they di-di'd out on Bush 41 they condemned America to the spectacle of the Anti-Christ's understudy running things for 8 long years.

They've learned their lesson.

[Holden Magroin]

No way is the media biased.

[AHerald]

Hugh Hewitt has Podhoretz on and he's saying that these exit polls are complete BS. Some of the exit polls had data that is collected is bad and can't be trusted. "Everything you've heard about tonight isn't true ... Everything is in play more than you think."

He says exit polls are being tossed out as not trustworthy.

[gov_bean_ counter]

The exit polls don't necessarily ask a person who they voted for. They ask a list of issue questions and infer a voting preference from the answers. Britt said the exit polls were initially designed to take the voters pulse on issues, not pick winners and losers.

[VOR78]

Its beginning to look like 2002 all over again, where Republican support was vastly underestimated on election day.

That said, I'm still very nervous...