I hope the exit polls are wildly off, no matter who turns up the victor.
In fact, I’d like to see ALL the polls eliminated entirely. I’m sick to death of the incessant daily polls that we’ve have to agonize over, seemingly since the end of the last election cycle.
I see them as little more than propaganda - tools by which a biased, dishonest organization can force an agenda and manipulate public policy.
My cynicism goes back a long way, to a time when a Detroit newspaper reported that a vast majority of Michigan voters were supposedly in favor of a statewide mandatory seat belt law. The same survey also indicated that only a small fraction of those surveyed actually wore their seat belts voluntarily. And these people were in favor of a law mandating it? Sorry, not buying it.
Polls, begone!
I lied to the a polster and said I was voting for Obama. (Sniff sniff.) Then I lied again and said my wife wasn’t home and that she doesn’t follow politics. (More sniffing.) Then I said she usually askes me who to vote for and I (lots of sniffing) would tell her to vote for Obama. I have learned the error of my way. I won’t do that again, unless they call again.