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AVOID THE EXIT POLL TRAP!!! -Vanity, but IMPORTANT
Self | Will E. Horton

Posted on 11/03/2004 10:12:38 AM PST by Will E. Horton

Don't believe ANY reporting from any source that relies on the results of yesterday's exit polls. Every statistic within them is flawed. Example: Gender gap was Bush +7 for men and -7 for women, but turnout showed a +8 edge for women. This is statistically impossible given the now known results. If this BASIC number is so flawed, then NOTHING in the exit polls can be relied upon. Having said that, the MSM will continue to cite their flawed poll to support whatever 13th hour arguments they make regarding the "meaning" of this election and the "direction" Bush should govern in. DON'T FALL INTO THE TRAP.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bigmedia; bush; election; exitpoll; kerry; media; msm; president

1 posted on 11/03/2004 10:12:39 AM PST by Will E. Horton
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To: Will E. Horton
Exit polls are illegitimate infringements on the right to the secret ballot.

They should be banned outright.

2 posted on 11/03/2004 10:15:50 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: Will E. Horton
Those polls are so irrelevant!

Move along now.....Nothing to see here.

3 posted on 11/03/2004 10:17:22 AM PST by Cold Heat (There is more to do! "Mr. Kerry, about that Navy discharge?")
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To: Will E. Horton

The phony AP exit polls will definitely be an issue.


4 posted on 11/03/2004 1:20:28 PM PST by sevry
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Nonsense. No one is forcing anyone to respond to an exit poll.

Exit polls are illegitimate infringements on the right to the secret ballot.

5 posted on 11/03/2004 1:25:07 PM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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To: Ready4Freddy
Exit polls are illegitimate infringements on the right to the secret ballot.
Nonsense. No one is forcing anyone to respond to an exit poll.
You are a black conservative in a predominantly black polling place. You walk away from the ballot box, and a black exit poller accosts you and asks how you voted. Is it safe for you to tell the truth, or even to refuse to answer the question?

6 posted on 11/03/2004 2:48:04 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
1) - who says they have to tell the trufe?

2) - how many black conservatives live in predominately black areas?

7 posted on 11/03/2004 3:27:56 PM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Exit polls are illegitimate infringements on the right to the secret ballot.

Not only are exit polls an infringement, but so are those union idiots who invariably crowd the polling places holding their damn signs (for the Democrat candidates, of course.

At my polling place, you get the scowling hard-hats lurking about, having been given the day off by their union bosses, holding their Kerry signs in a menacing manner as if daring you to vote for anybody else. They don't intimidate me in the slightest but I can imagine how some might be intimidated by them and have their votes influenced accordingly.

8 posted on 11/03/2004 3:35:49 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Red Sox Win The World Series...And Bush Wins Re-election Too!)
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