Walter Cronkite claimed that Karl Rove was behind the pre-election Osama Bin Laden video.
My opinion about the exit polls is that
1. Republicans are more likely to say "get bent" to a pollster.
2. Pollsters intentionally skewed their sample (60+% women in the initial poll)
3. Dems found out at which precincts the pollsters were and intentionally over represented their numbers so they could claim vote fraud when the vote count didn't match the exit polls.
I had forgotten that.....it was a just a blip. They knew it was nutty and buried it under other "news"!