[Zack Nguyen]

"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.

If this is true, why didn't the Elite Media Group, who was performing exit polling for the major networks, disavow these bogus numbers? Why didn't they say, "Hey, these aren't our numbers. We don't know where they're coming from." Were they not aware?

[mrustow]

"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.

If this is true, why didn't the Elite Media Group, who was performing exit polling for the major networks, disavow these bogus numbers? Why didn't they say, "Hey, these aren't our numbers. We don't know where they're coming from." Were they not aware?

Those are excellent questions that the rest of us would do well to keep repeating, louder and louder, since otherwise, the SMSM and the folks at Elite will simply "move on."