Posted on 11/04/2008 12:58:00 PM PST by TitansAFC
Election 2004 has been rocked with first wave of morning exit polls which show Kerry competitive in key states, campaign and media sources tell DRUDGE.... National Election Pool -- representing six major news organization -- shows Kerry in striking distance -- with small lead -- in Florida and Ohio.. MORE...
BEWARE EARLY EXIT POLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Exactly right.
I remember this well, I was working at a GSE at the time and the place was loaded down with radical libs, they were partying and carrying on... I didn’t have the heart to tell them there was no way what they were being told could remotely be true.
I just sat quietly as they gloated around the office, and then later, as the problems with the exit polling became glaringly obvious and the reports they were off began, I watched their glee turn to dispair. Now, I don’t consider myself a sadist, I do not get pleasure from others pain, but I certainly felt no pity for those folks that day either.
I went home happy to watch the rest of the race unfold, cautiously optimistic, even if Kerry had managed to pull off a win late that night, they had already spent their emotional loads.
BEWARE EARLY EXIT POLLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Getting a little late for early exit polls here in the east.
Right, ignore the exit polls and any “news” you might hear from Zogby, et al.
I’m surprised we haven’t heard any either. I guess the MSM couldn’t come up with a result they liked, so they didn’t bother leaking!
Now on Election Day four years ago, I left work early around 3PM to vote and the local airwaves (in Boston) were already buzzing about the impending Kerry victory based on early exit polls showing him 3-4 points ahead in key states. I was so depressed driving home that I comtemplated just going straight home and not even bothering to vote. But I went ahead and voted anyhow and I'm glad I did.
Now here it is almost 4:15PM and nothing about early exit polls in the MSM at all. Not even on Drudge, who already had the sirens going at this time four years ago.
Now either a tighter lid has been put on leaking exit polls this time around OR the MSM is afraid to leak out what the exit polls are telling them so far.
You decide, but if I was a betting man, I'd be putting money on the latter.
Now on Election Day four years ago, I left work early around 3PM to vote and the local airwaves (in Boston) were already buzzing about the impending Kerry victory based on early exit polls showing him 3-4 points ahead in key states. I was so depressed driving home that I comtemplated just going straight home and not even bothering to vote. But I went ahead and voted anyhow and I'm glad I did.
Now here it is almost 4:15PM and nothing about early exit polls in the MSM at all. Not even on Drudge, who already had the "exit polls breaking for Kerry" sirens going at this time four years ago.
Now either a tighter lid has been put on leaking exit polls this time around OR the MSM is afraid to leak out what the exit polls are telling them so far.
You decide, but if I was a betting man, I'd be putting money on the latter.
BTTT
I can’t remember the other numbers, but I distinctly remember the first wave of exit polls had Kerry up 60-40 in PA, which only missed his margin of victory by . . . 18. I think the exits gots “better” during the afternoon, but they were still junk.
I don’t know why people don’t understand this.
Republicans usually don’t vote early by mail. They are smart enough to understand the powers that be find ways to “disqualify” ballots that aren’t “exact”.
We also don’t vote early in the day. We have jobs. Day voting is done usually by retired, disabled, jobless. Democrat voters. I’ve been there, I’ve seen it.
I voted during the day early this year. Never seen so many people with canes.
Republicans come in, in a rush, after work. Sometimes they come right before closing.
Besides which, conservatives have a strong, well founded suspicion of the press and powers that be. We don’t tell the pollsters the truth.
Didn’t the MSM give sKerry Virginia too, and weren’t they way off and scretching their heads on it?
By the end of the night, the POLL was up Kerry’s pinko ass, causing massive brain damage from which he has never recovered.
I love Poles, Czechs, fries with Greece, and gravy, esp. when I’m Hungary.
2004 early exit polls, from the archives of a lefty site (found via google):
AZ CO LA PA OH FL MI NM MN WI IA NH
Kerry 45 48 42 60 52 51 51 50 58 52 49 57
Bush 55 51 57 40 48 48 47 48 40 43 49 41
I know the spacing may be a bit off due to the font, but it should be relatively readable.
The 2004 exit polls understated Bush’s performance by
1, 2, 0, 17, 6, 8, 1, 3, 15, 8, 1, and 14 points respectively.
Bump for those crowing about today’s exit polls....
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