Rove says early exit polls made him 'ill'

AP ^ | 11/8

[CWOJackson]

LOL! I know the feeling...almost makes me feel sorry for those who had to face the late exit polls.

Almost.

[IStillBelieve]

Rove played down the importance to the campaign of "moral values," which exit polls last Tuesday unexpectedly identified as a major consideration of many voters, especially those who voted for Bush.

Rove said 34 percent of the voters were motivated by issues surrounding Iraq and the war on terror, compared with 30 percent motivated by moral values. "What essentially happened in this election was that people became concerned about three issues: first the war, then the economy, jobs and taxes and then moral values. And then everything else dropped off of the plate," he said.

[A Jovial Cad]

They made me ill, too, that early evening. A little after midnight, I started feeling much better, and then ecstatic. I'm still quite, oh, I don't know, Jovial. How sweet it was (and is)!

[gop_gene]

LOL! I know the feeling...almost makes me feel sorry for those who had to face the late exit polls. Almost.

I didn't feel sorry for the opposition in the least. I'm sure when those early exit polls came out, they didn't feel sorry for us.

[thoughtomator]

Those exit polls made me ill, too. And someone should be held to account for the fraud they represent. I think sedition charges are appropriate.

[bullzeye66]

The exit polls didn't make sense to my beaux and I too... we were watching DOWN for us in Virginia, and the 19 points down in Pennsylvania... it just didn't make sense!

[Vapor3]

I didn't know that you could get addicted to tranquelizers in one day...
I'm struggling to kick my Xanax habit I acquired Tuesday morning.

[Jaysun]

Someone needs to be held responsible for the false exit polls. Rove may have been sick, but I took an entire bottle of sleeping pills and had to go get my stomach pumped once it became apparent that the polls were in fact wrong.

Sure, I may have acted in haste, but the bottle of sleeping pills cost me $8.00 and having my stomach pumped cost an additional $927.00 - the responsible party needs to send me a check. Otherwise, I guess I'll just continue to harrass John Kerry for my money.

[BookaT]

Cant he sue for that? I mean if he really felt ill. People are sueing for less. Maybe Breck Girl can take his case.

Shoot I felt ill too. Anyone else smell Class Action? Class? Yes the Republican Class!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I was the first to point to the tailor :-)

[flair2000]

The thing that got me was that the MSM kept reporting these false polls hours after voting was finished in the east. Virginia leading Kerry, North Carolina too close to call. Since when is 12% too close to call? They wouldn't even call Mississippi and Alabama right away. Looked like a deliberate attempt to supresss GOP voting in the Rocky Mountain states (Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico). Grrr!

[G.Love]

Well, so I wasn't the only one. After Drudge posted those phoney exit polls on his website, and then KJL at The Corner confirmed them, I walked in and told my boss that I thought I was going to throw up and I might need to go home and lie down.

[Caipirabob]

Hearing about the exit polls made me ill, too. I should say, even more ill, as I apparently had severe bronchitis and was put on Cipro the next day. I decided after touching base on FR, that I would turn off all TV and media as it was totally useless IMHO. I felt remarkably calm about the whole thing, however.

I checked into FR around 3:30Am-4:00AM and learned about the Ohio situation. By the time I read the last 600 posts, I was feeling as good as I could, and went to work in smiles (and a temp of 102...) Anyway, the whole world is better now, and the media is still in disgrace. : )

[leadpenny]

I felt somewhat the same way Tuesday afternoon as I drove home from work. I
checked into FR, got something to eat and said, "The heck with it!" and caught
some shuteye from around 7:30 to around 1:30am. All was much better by then.

[BluH2o]

The false exit polling data fed to Drudge in all likelihood came from the Kerry camp. Drudge red lighted it and the misinformation, or skewed data, spread thru the internet. Initially I was sucked in and was in a pessimistic angry frame of mind ... then by 8PM eastern my mood began to improve and it only got better the rest of the evening and early morning hours as Bush racked up victory after victory.

[newzjunkey]

I definitely had to go outside for a breather when I saw the exit polls. It appeared to be a disaster. I was most enraged that it appeared the MSM had been successful in stealing the election for Kerry.

By the time I came back in Drudge had more info such as the over sampling of women. We encouraged one another here not to panic as more information came in.

I was still deeply disturbed until West Virginia was called for Bush. From then on I was confident we were in good shape and those exit polls were bogus. Ohio never deeply concerned me.

The only thing late into the evening that made me irritated was the MSM's conspiring with the Kerry campaign to deprive Bush's voters AGAIN of an election night triumph. NBC & Fox called Ohio but refused to call Nevada, the others called Nevada and refused to call Ohio all to avoid announcing the obvious! In the end they gave up any pretense of being an impartial and free press.

When Senator Silky Pony came out and made his proclamation, I was immediately ready for a fight. Ohio was undeniably a Bush win and I was ready to dust off my Election 2000 Freeper PJ's, stockpile rations and go into Freeping battle. I'm more than pleased it wasn't necessary.

[Jim Noble]

Rove said he felt sick, then got mad when he started reading exit polls on Election Day

Those exit polls made me eat all my children's Halloween candy by 10PM.

Talk about sick...

[newzjunkey]

The false exit polling data fed to Drudge in all likelihood came from the Kerry camp.

It wasn't false and "fed" to Drudge. It was the same data the campaigns were seeing, including Rove. It was erroneous because the turn out model was terribly wrong.

I give credit to Drudge for reminding people the 2000 early exit polling was wrong as well and later adding details like them having an oversampling of women in the early numbers. The truth is he has allowed us to peek behind the proverbial curtain to see what the MSM and campaigns see which shapes the election night coverage.

[newzjunkey]

Those exit polls made me eat all my children's Halloween candy by 10PM.

I went through all the mini Crunch bars we had left from Halloween and had a Dr. Pepper IV going. At one point, in the early afternoon I brashly declared I was not going to eat dinner because my stomach was in such a tight knot. I was calmed down about an hour later.

Still, I'm sure we could all agree, we'd take this false alert over another 2000.