Brit Hume seemed rather apologetic this evening. He knows that Fox blew it - as did all of the other TV networks. They paid a company good money to get exit polls and they naturally relied on them in their early reporting. Once things seemed to differ from the exit polls, they were in a quandry.
It's like you hiring a financial advisor. You take his advice but then all of a sudden all of your investments start going sour. What do you do? For a while, you might hang in with the advisor for a while. After all, you've paid him. But soon you may get realistic and dump him, and your stock.
Dick Morris has expressed an opinion that the exit polls were fraudulant.
Michael Barone, on Fox with Brit tonight, said that he strongly suspected that the exit polls were slammed by someone in the DemocRAT party.
Here's how it works. Find out where the polling company is polling. Send voters there to "volunteer" to take the poll. Lots of voters don't want to be bothered. The polling company is happy to find a "volunteer".
How did the RATs know where the polls were going to be taken? The polling company was paid by a media consortium. Do you think for one minute that the RATs couldn't find a "media person" who would tell them?
I agree that Fox blew it. And I've expressed my opinion to Brit and others there. And I believe that they are aware of the problem and just might not fall for it a second time.
just for the record (and I didn't know this until today), Hume was the first one to call the election. Sorry if that'd already been mentioned but that's great! Kudos!