Actually, Dick may have missed something significant ... I happened to witness it when I voted at the Courthouse: most of the people in East Tennessee are Republicans and voted for Bush/Cheney, but the pollsters trying to get feedback from exiting voters had trouble getting middle-aged, male, voters to stop and give them the time of day, yet young females and strange looking (as in butchy) females, as well as college-aged males were more than happy to chat with the pollsters. Skews the numbers don'tchaknow, Dick! Moral of the story ... ignore Dick Morris's opinions and disregard polls. Vote, even if you have to crawl across broken glass! Our nation is in grave peril from liberalism, so vote them (liberals) out.
Dick clearly explained that a GOOD exit pollster would NOT take more samples or would weigh them to match the numbers. Thus a handful of middle aged males would be weighted to match their numbers in previous samples.
Thus, these weren't serious exit pollsters. It was another attempt by the left wing media to play havoc with the election. They do it every election and just can't get away with it any longer.
And what makes Dick right, more than often, is that he was in the belly of their beast also and he knows the things they do. You can't be an advisor to Clinton since 1980 Arkansas and not know the media takes sides.
If you read the whole article, I believe Moris adequately explains why this could not be the problem if the poll takers were not new to the task. I believe this team had the experience to know how to do it correctly.
I subscribe to the idea that somehow the poll locations got out to the Kerry friendly and they dumped phony (non-voters) into the places with the intention of volunteering to be interviewed. To prove this, some of them need to come forward, and if they are highly motivated to cheat, they will likely be highly motivated to be quiet. but this is likely what happened. Fortunately the electorate did not bite.
Dude, where you from? I'm here in Farragut, big time W country. It wasn't really a contest locally, major W push!