Why There Won't Be Exit Polls in Massachusetts

Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/19/2010 | John Fund

[tennmountainman]

The Massachusetts Senate race was a complete snoozer until January 5, when pollster Scott Rasmussen released a survey showing Republican Scott Brown trailing Democrat Martha Coakley by only nine points. That surprised many, but still wasn't a true wake-up call that the race would be a barnburner. As late as January 10, the Boston Globe carried a headline trumpeting a poll showing Ms. Coakley with a 15-point lead. Mr. Brown's surge was so sudden that many of the usual accoutrements of closely-contested elections are missing in the Bay State.

[tennmountainman]

UPDATE: Rush just announced that Rasmussen has stepped up to the plate to conduct exit polling at his own expense. Quotes John Fund as saying one of the reasons News Organizations decilined to do exit polls is that the Liberal Media did not want to show how bad it's going for the liberals.

[Red Badger]

Journalism is dead. They are hacks and flunkies of the (D) party. No news that’s bad (about their guy) is fit to print.........

[kabar]

It also is a cover so the Dems can steal the election. It would be difficult to reconcile exit polls that show a clear Brown victory with the actual results (aided by voter fraud) that give Coakley the win.

[tennmountainman]

I agree. How can you have pre-election polls Brown surging with a Coakley win.

unless you are cheating.

[ChiMark]

The liberals and the media are vile and evil. There is no
way that they would allow MA to go Republican.

Will the republicans have the guts to fight?

[Plutarch]

The Massachusetts Senate race was a complete snoozer until January 5, when pollster Scott Rasmussen released a survey showing Republican Scott Brown trailing Democrat Martha Coakley by only nine points.

It wasn't a snoozer at FR, where the Jan 5 poll by Rasmussen was widely anticipated, and predicted to be in the single digits. FR was first to the fight in MA.

[Plutarch]

The Massachusetts Senate race was a complete snoozer until January 5, when pollster Scott Rasmussen released a survey showing Republican Scott Brown trailing Democrat Martha Coakley by only nine points.

It wasn't a snoozer at FR, where the Jan 5 poll by Rasmussen was widely anticipated, and predicted to be in the single digits.

FR was first to the fight in MA, ahead of the RNC, the Dems, the MSM and even Intrade.

[Plutarch]

Aha, I looked up the pre-Rasmussen poll thread.

Poll: Republican Scott Brown Trails by 11 in Mass. Senate Race

There wasn't all that much optimism, save for one poster who was a veritable Nostradamus.

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To: American Dream 246

The Rasmussen poll will be eagerly anticipated.

If Brown is somehow in striking distance, the implications will be like a thunderclap.

8 posted on Monday, January 04, 2010 3:54:04 PM by Plutarch

The Rasmussen poll will be eagerly anticipated.

[Joann37]

Very well stated, kabar. Without exit polling, ACORN or SEIU can steal the election to whatever margin they desire!

[101voodoo]

In 2004 the exit polling showed Kerry the clear winner and yet he lost when the votes were counted

Absentee ballots all had to be in 2 weeks before election day and setting up a scam in a race with the entire WORLD watching is not as easy as you think, especially since the libs thought it was a lock only 2 weeks ago or so.

[kabar]

Al Franken stole the race in MN in front of the whole world. Two week deadlines for absentee ballots are meaningless if the Dems control the process.

The case of Kerry is not analogous. The exit polling was flawed.

[editor-surveyor]

Journalism has been dead for our entire lives.