To CBS, CNN, ABC and NBC :
Posted on 10/03/2008 1:16:16 PM PDT by John W
Polling place surveys frequently overstated Obama vote during primaries
NEW YORK - Barack Obama’s tendency through the Democratic primaries to perform better in exit polls than he actually does at the ballot box has some media organizations nervous heading into Election Night.
Television networks want to avoid having their performance become an issue for the third straight presidential election. Their political experts hope that experience gained during the primaries will help things run smoothly Nov. 4.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Dems still think exit polls decide elections.
Don’t worry regardless of the margin. John McCain will have stolen the election.
It will be worse than ever on election night. It will be the worst the media has ever been. In fact, I would not doubt if CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN all call the race prematurely and earlier than any of their past performances.
Theres’ only one poll that counts. The rest are BS.
It’s called the Bradley Effect.
Bought a new Microwave at Best Buy the other day, the kid working there said the GE model was the best.
I told him GE owns NBC and I would never buy a GE product again.
They will use this to say that "they waited as long as possible" to call it but WILL call them early for Obama. It will cause voter disenfranchisement in the Central, Mountain and Pacific Time Zones. COUNT ON IT!
Here’s something the idiots might try. Quit worrying about exit polls and pay attention the actual votes. Polls do not elect people, votes do. Exit polls are a fairly recent thing and judging by the poor showing of them they should be dropped. They only reason they are used is to make conservatives feel the election is lost so they won’t come to the polls. I really doubt networks are concerned about exit polls making them look bad. If the blatant media bias shown towards republicans hasn’t shamed them, nothing will.
Here, I have a solution -
don’t “call” a state until there is no chance that the other candidate cannot win, based on actual vote counts.
Their performance regarding polls is so meaningless compared to their performance on all things news-related that they need, once again, to set their priorities in order.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Bradley Effect.
Poor babies must stop belly-aching. Plan on doing news reporting.
Why not just declare Scott Rasmussen’s daily tracker the exit poll?
In 2000 RAS had Bush winning by 8% on Election day
They tried that in 2004 , when they had Drudge publish their 4pm exit polling.
Thankfully GOP voters are not that stupid.
They tried that in 2004 , when they had Drudge publish their 4pm exit polling.
Thankfully GOP voters are not that stupid.
Unfortunately, the MSM does not realize this term (idoit) applies to them.
I’m sure that when CNN calls the election for B. Hussien at 8:00 PM Central that John McCain will immediately concede the election.
That would be the bipartisan thing to do...
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