Posted on 11/03/2004 9:19:26 AM PST by Perdogg
Larry Sabato, the respected political scientist from the University of Virginia, admitted to Fox News' "Fox & Friends" this morning that he was "steamed" about the exit polls yesterday.
Sabato joined Dick Morris in questioning the results of the surveys, which showed John Kerry with a decisive victory.
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He said the exit polling service had to "answer for" the inaccuracies. Sabato said the unusual mistakes were way off base. He noted one exit poll had Kerry winning Pennsylvania by 19 points.
Results so far show Kerry winning Pennsylvania by a tiny margin, smaller than President Bush's margin of victory in Ohio.
Sabato hinted that the exit polling's errors might not have been a mistake. He noted that media commentators read the exit polls all day long.
When pundits see these polls they begin to skew their commentaries so they look like they are in tune with what's happening, he said.
In this case, Kerry's supporters became very enthusiastic.
Sabato noted that the exit polls could have the effect of depressing, and suppressing, voters for the candidate who is "supposed" to lose.
That Kool-Aid's got a mother of an aftertaste, don't it, Larry?
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There oughtta be a law....
Why is Sabato 'respected' when he's as big as an incompetent as any of them?
Here's a f-ing clue for Sabato: The exit polls were taken by a consortium of companies which all dedicated themselves - putting their reputations on the line - to destroying the President. Why would it be surprising to find the exit polls wildly skewed against him? The pollers' bosses are CBS, NBC, ABC, etc., hardly a group any sensible person would go to as a neutral observer.
I knew Newsmax wasn't very credible, but...
Sabato has been predicting a Kerry victory for weeks, and now he's going to shift the focus of attention to these miserable Election Day exit polls.
What about that PUNK Zogby? Check out his comments on his website today....Whata Putz
I think these polls are more likely to suppress votes for the candidate who is alleged to be way ahead. I mean, if you've got a headache, and there are long lines at the polls, and your candidate is fixing to win by a huge margin anyway, why bother dragging yourself to the polls?
Thats because they probably WERE rigged.
I wonder, in a way, if it backfired and brought out a few million more voters though - as the day went by.
The whole plan was to demoralize and limit Republican votes. It didn't work well enough, though the media talking heads tried their best to pull Kerry over the finish line.
Folks, there were fewer than 14,000 people questioned, or less than 280 people in each state. Of course the results sucked. The margin of error on these puppies was +/-10%....
Frank Luntz was also on Fox & Friends this morning. He too was furious over the exit polls. He gave many reasons for the bad polling but the number one reason was INCOMPETENCE.
He is afraid that polling has received a major black eye because of these exit polls.
No s*** Dick Tracy ... Sabato this time yesterday was confidently predicting a Kerry victory. Go back to sleep dogbreath ...
I could see MAYBE Va, a lot of limo-liberals in NoVa, but not NC and SC.
my guess is that the exit pollers tired to be honest, but given that more women voted earlier, they based a prediction on an improper sample of voters. that is to say, they did the polling right, but they did not poll the right people.
I do not having any problem saying the exit polls were a criminal conspiracy and not a mistake at all. But gutless Republicans will not prosecute this any more than they will prosecute the thousands of cases of outright voter fraud.
Exactly. He's just trying to cover his tracks so he doesn't look like he has egg all over his face.
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