Posted on 01/19/2005 9:55:38 AM PST by MikefromOhio
NEW YORK — Two firms that conducted Election Day exit polls for major news organizations reported Wednesday that they found a number of problems with the way the polls were carried out last year, resulting in estimates that overstated John Kerry's share of the vote.
Edison Media Research (search) and Mitofsky International (search) found that the Democratic challenger's supporters were more likely than President Bush's supporters to participate in exit polls interviews. They also found that more errors occurred in exit polls conducted by younger interviewers, and about half of the interviewers were 34 or under.
The polling firms laid out their findings to the consortium of news organizations, known as the National Election Pool. See the results of the study by clicking here (pdf).
The news organizations — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News and The Associated Press — formed the consortium to get exit polling data for the 2004 election after a previous group known as the Voter News Service was disbanded.
In November 2000, flawed information from VNS twice led television networks to incorrectly declare a winner in the presidential race in Florida, the state that proved to be key to the outcome. And in the 2002 election, VNS was unable to provide its members and other clients with results from exit poll surveys.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Big surprise
Didn't we figure that out by 6:00 PM election day?
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Not possible. Cannot be true. The exit polls are the only true measure of the vote. The actual ballots should not count. Only the exit polls.
Quick, find their donation history! I bet they are right wing fascists!
Rove strikes again!
Isn't it....but its up on Foxnews.com like its breaking news or something....
hell I had that figured out about 4 PM that day, from seeing Drudge and having my own experience....
Ahem /sarcasm!
The election was two months ago. It took them THAT long to figure this out? Its amazing how dumb smart people can be sometimes.
Does this mean that Kerry didn't really win?
LOL!
Exactly what I was thinking...
Did they also discover the overwhelming majority of voters considered the exit pollsters to blithering mindless idiots?
Captain Obvious strikes again!
I would never contribute to an exit poll. I don't need some jagov with a clipboard asking me who I voted for and what religion I am. Worse than mall pollsters...
APf
Really?
You mean they could have been skewed? What a shock!!!!!!
What!!? No kidding. Ya cudda knocked me over with a feather.
Not only are conservatives more inherently likely to tell an exit poller to go stuff it, but there are clearly more exit pollers standing around in blue country as opposed to "flyover country". Exit polling is methodologically worthless.
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