Posted on 11/07/2004 11:45:49 PM PST by ambrose
Thank goodness that on Tuesdays I teach 2 three hour classes back to back, so I didn't even get to check the voting results until after 8pm on the east coast.
By then, things were looking good for Bush. Otherwise, I would have been sick too!!!!
When the first numbers came in around 2pm, I felt like I had been punched in the gut, even though mentally I knew they were wrong.... shortly there after the sampling errors were revealed 60% women? Come on!
I will admit for a brief instant my faith was shaken, but it did not last but 5 minutes. After the sampling issue was exposed, I was more confident than ever (and I was damned confident from the get go) that Bush had this thing lock stock and barrel.
LOL!
THANK YOU. I have been wondering this myself but did not want to start a vanity thread about it. To restate your question: Why are the exit polls being taken as factual when reporting WHY people voted the way they did when the polls were so wrong in reporting WHO people voted for?
Granted, at the time I took the exit polling at face value, as the evening progressed it was obvious the early exit polling was a complete sham ... no doubt aided and abetted by the MSM including (perhaps unwittingly)Drudge. Dick Morris who is the guru of exit polling data is calling for an impartial investigation as he feels the early was so off the mark as to be contrived in order to give voter momentum to Kerry.
The only exit poll question that registers correct with me is "who do you trust more with security?"
I think it was 72 BUSH..TERRORISM won this elecion IMHO.
I truly believe the media is making up this big moral victory to make us look like religious zeolots.
I was amazed that folks were just accepting what the MSM was telling them, and that INCLUDES Drudge!! It seemed that he was accepting the figures and passing them along without editorial comment early on. I wasn't watching TV early in the day, and only realized what was happening when I checked with FR around mid-day. I didn't believe the exit polls, so I turned on Rush, and he was talking about just how BOGUS the numbers were. I knew that the President's team had the numbers they needed because of the confidence they were exuding in the days leading up to the vote.
Jay Severin, on talk radio here in the Boston area, made the mistake of taking what the MSM said as gospel the last few weeks before the election. He was a REAL downer and predicted a Kerry win. I just stopped listening to him because I was seeing the state polls, and what he was saying bore no relation to them. His biggest fear was vote fraud, but I didn't think it would be as big a problem as it might have been in 2000 because the Repubs. were ready for it.
**"I was on Air Force One, and we were literally on final approach into Andrews," Rove said on "Fox News Sunday." "The phone connection kept cutting out. I was holding a piece of paper on my knee, trying to scribble it down, holding the phone in the other hand. I got sick as I wrote them down, and then when I looked at them, I got angry, because they simply could not be true."
"I mean, it had us 19 points down in Pennsylvania. It had us 17 points down in New Hampshire. It had us 1 point up in Virginia," Rove said. "I mean, you looked at these numbers, and you realize, this is just insane."**
I think we all shared Rove's feelings. First -- astonishment
Second -- anger
Third -- suspicion of dim planted poll takers (at least this was true for me.) Anyone else?
my bet is we will see some kind of kitty dulakis move by her soon
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