Blogs Blamed for Exit Poll Fiasco

AP ^ | 11.03.04

[4kevin]

News organizations promised Wednesday to look into why their Election Day exit polls showed an initial surge for John Kerry, but also blamed bloggers for spreading news that gave a misleading view of the presidential race. The exit poll data was delivered at several points Tuesday to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and The Associated Press by the National Election Pool, a company formed in the wake of the networks' blown calls on election night 2000.... The Florida and Ohio exit poll results, along with those in other states where Kerry was strong, was quickly disseminated on websites such as Slate, the Drudge Report, Wonkette.com, Atrios.blogspot.com and Command Post. Some of these sites cautioned readers not to make too much of the information. The Command Post delivered the news under the headline "Grain of Salt." Drudge removed the numbers almost as quickly as they were posted. And Slate warned: "These early exit poll numbers do not divine the name of the winner."

[colorado tanker]

The Democrats have not had majority support since they split their party over Vietnam 1968-1972 and put the McGovern (and Kerry) liberals in charge, driving out the conservatives and moderates. So, the only way they can win is to cheat.

[MaryJaneNC]

Rush said the Kerry camp put out the fake numbers....and the media was oh so ready to put the lie out there.
The media is going to play the blame game...and they tried so hard to defeat Bush themselves. Could it be, that the stupid middle Americans saw through all the fabrications anyway?

[Republic]

So an ex-CBS hack working for the networks releases false exit polling data on the internet...and the press tries to blame it on the people it was leaked to???

Yep. Wish we had a few email addresses to sent this sentiment to....like you, I am not buying this for ONE SECOND! Those numbers originated SOMEWHERE. And that is where the BLAME should be placed.

[festus]

Well we were responsible for Blathers Memogate.....

I mean we did point it out as a fraud after all.....

And were it not for the Pajama Posse the networks would have not had to immediately retract the bogus exit poll data either.

So I gladly claim responsibility !

[zencycler]

Man who yells "fire" blames people running out of crowded theater for the death of those who were trampled.

That's about the same as the persons who publish the exit polls blaming the bloggers for reacting to them.