Posted on 11/04/2004 2:00:15 PM PST by Perdogg
dirtboy this is the article Rush was talking about ....and the one I highlighted on the other thread.
According to at least three sources, one inside the Kerry campaign, and two outside of it, but with ties to senior Kerry advisers, some of the "early polling numbers" were in fact direct reports from Kerry campaign or Democratic Party operatives on the ground in such critical states as Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to a Washington lobbyist with knowledge of the numbers, the numbers were packaged together so as to appear to be exit poll results. They were then scrubbed through several sources to land in the lap of sympathetic bloggers who these operatives believed would put the numbers up with little question.
Someone needs to rot in jail over this..
Pollstergeist! A very clever neologism.
They used the internet against us...
And the leftist's say voters that vote for Bush are idiots?
Only against the ones who believed them.
Drudge is claiming 36 million people viewed those exit polls he posted ....how many of those didn't vote because of this dirty trick.
Thanks for the ping. This could dwarf Rathergate.
I have been utterly dismayed by the post election coverage. President Bush and the republicans have broken all sorts of historical records, but it seems that people keep downplaying it or worse. I noticed that when I switched from Fox News to other networks, such as CNN, that they only showed Kerry’s concession (highly praised) while not showing Bush’s speech added to the fact that the correspondents were visibly upset and appeared to be mourning Kerry’s defeat.
Kerry made an odd comment that morning that Bush shouldn't contest the results...... he knew about it.
The left / msm has done it's best to sway and control America, yet it's the rest of the world falls for it.
This was a well planned operation......they knew the exact locations of the polling stations to have their fake voters be at. They had friendly bloggers filter these results so they couldn't be traced back to the vermin who planted them. Then got a willing press to run with them.
I'm happy to see this written. Dick Morris was talking about it, and I happened to agree that someone played with these numbers.
It is reminiscent of 2000, when we heard because they announced FL early, many voters didn't bother to vote. It is merely a reminder that we can't trust the majority of "polls" - whether they are exit polls, Zogby, a compilation on Drudge, etc.
Thank God the majority of America paid no attention and voted, or we'd be living with the results of their latest dirty game.
I'd be interested in knowing where KJL on National Review got her "exit polls" tallies.. she caused a great deal of furor on FR.
So the leaker was from the Kerry Camp huh??
Not that many, I would presume. I'm a 10 hour a day talk show listener (Ingraham, Rush, Medved, Hewitt) and I haven't heard one call from a GOP voter, the opposite of the Clymers' Florida call in 2000. I think this is due to the fact that the exit poll fraud was caught and countered fairly quickly and the GOP GOTV effort which did not blink.
As to the source of the early fraudulent numbers, it appears that it was the Kerry Campaign and/or DNC. NRO writer Lopez told Hewitt she got hers from a "campaign". Also, Wonkette started it and she is on their side. I do hope that there is a criminal investigation if there were crimes, as suggested by Dick Morris. It was the left's last hurrah (the al Qaaqa surprise being forced to be sprung early) and methinks the Rats are going to be out of power for a long time. Hehehehe....
She let slip a "campaign" in speaking with Hugh Hewitt the afternoon of the election...
In short, it seems like an incredible political risk for absolutely no return.
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