Posted on 11/02/2004 12:08:06 PM PST by njsketch
this explains the skewed results.
I sent a note to Drudge to back off with his bogus 'exit poll' data. He is getting worse than the TV networks with his early declaritive spin. This kind of irresponsibility could skew the election.
Send him a note and tell him to pull his overexcited exit poll stories until people have a chance to vote. Polls don't close for another seven hours.
Thanks. Just got in from work, had Hannity on for 5 minutes and thought the world had gone to hell!
Who's doing the exit polling this year?
"59-41 women to men? Who the hell would even take such numbers for an exit poll and then report it. This is getting ridiculous."
How about CBS? Then CBS releashed this data on its financial link/site to smack the good stock increases we had going earlier today.
GOP Headquarters POWER Knocked out in Pittsburgh PA
Absolutely. They have probably coordinated all this with the networks. It makes me sick they even call themselves journalists.
Right. And to compound the problem, this "exit polling pool" is feeding the MSM - the likes of MSNBC, FNC, CBS, etc. So, we have to put up with smarmy, "we're winning and we know it!" looks from the likes of Matthews, Blather and all the rest until late at night.
So, I predict about 6+ hours of extreme angst while we watch them smarm themselves into extreme bliss. Before the reality of the real #s bring them back down to earth.
But, God help us - who on earth knows what the real #s ARE? We have AP as the reporting mechanism. ANYTHING is possible.
"The samples are not random, then."
CBS polls are never random, and their not news programs are never un biased.
Shouldnt this thread be pulled?
This is much a-doo-doo about nothing. Our numbers ARE looking good. Let's not get distracted. Pray no one has turned around or changed because of this. The stock market didn't like the possibility of Kerry winning.
Keep the faith--it's better than we think for!
Our electoral process is under siege as we speak. All the tricks the MSM have pulled this year, the fake stories, lies, bias, will pale compared to what they have up their sleeve today. They are executing their plan.
Wise words from "The Horserace Blog"
"Ignore the exit polls...
The raw numbers trickling out are just that...raw. Exit polling is heavily "scrubbed" at the end of the day to account for turnout in each precinct, to account for pre-existing demographic sensibilities (i.e. samples are re-jiggered for sex, race, income, etc). These raw numbers obviously cannot be scrubbed in this matter. This means that the MOE is so high for Bush and Kerry that they are basically useless. What's more...you don't know what kind of data out there is reliable or not -- it is all rumour and innuendo.
I know you are all desperate for information, but this is not what you are looking for. Please no posting of exit polling data on this site.
Personal observation: The numbers I have seen are extremely implausible in at least five out of fourteen different polls -- that casts a heavy fog over all of them. The rest of them are so close to one another that nobody really knows whether or not who even won the AM vote. Seriously.
Personal anecdote: The early exit polling in 2000 did not favor Bush at all. I remember coming home from class in 2000 and discovering that Bush was "toast" in the big states...and that he was putting together a "small state strategy" for victory. Well...we all know how that one worked out. "
Actually, it may fire up Republicans to make sure and vote.
Soccer moms driving their Lexus SUV two miles to polling station after dropping their little darlings off at school.
Also woman drop off kids at the school then vote in early morning.
If this is true with the heavy woman polls, we could be in good shape.
Nice work if you can get it.
From what he inferred on Imus this morning I think Matthews is trying to drag the results out all night long.
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