Posted on 04/10/2006 12:24:52 PM PDT by jmc1969
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is on course to win a majority of seats in the country's upper house following a general election, according to exit polls.
Pollsters also say early returns indicate his centre-right bloc may take the lower house too.
A government needs to control both chambers to take office and pass laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.net ...
Claudia, things may not be so bleak after all.
So far returns have suggested he is losing, he is winning, and that it is too close to call.
that must mean la familia is working harder than the demorats did to forge ballots across the country as we speak (type).
How do you say hanging chad in italian? (il ritaglio appendente, according to Il Pesce di Babel)
Polls Now Say Italy Race Too Close to Call - 3:18pm
Italian election swings towards Berlusconi - 3:24pm
Ah, the fondness of 2004. I was in an Ohio county campaign office making phone calls all morning and doing a GOTV thing in the afternoon. When I got there I heard the rumors about the fraud in PA buzzing around from what was on the news (which I still think happened. That state should've been Bush in 04). never once did any of us hear the exit polls, which kept our moral up. That was a great event and experience in my life. . . thanks for making me remember and not feel so down about 2006!
I smell a trend.
By 5pm it be that she will be winning by a rout?
The thing you want very much to see is some sort of early exit poll that is obviously skewed, as was the case at roughly 1:30pm CST in 2004.
Then, you simply hop onto tradesports.com (or your favourite equivalent site) and fade the polls. You don't necessarily stay in until the results are known (I didn't; RWP did), but the whole point here is that, in every skew are the seeds of its own deskewing. In other words, the skew is going to vanish to at least SOME extent before the final result is known.
It's just money for jam, m'friend.
Polls Now Say Italy Race Too Close to Call - 3:18pm
Italian election swings towards Berlusconi - 3:24pm
Berlusconi may cling on: projections - 3:32pm
This is too funny! ONLY the American Liberal Media Establishment would even print ANYTHING about exit polls. Since they knew their "Exit Poll Story" would be available all over the world, they no doubt were trying to discourage Italian Voters from voting at all. It's more proof that Liberals the world over will stop at nothing to destroy opponents and preserve their power.
Bravo Dieboldi!
Very little doubt about it.
Liberals drink their own whiskey too much.
Their bias clouds all things.
BREAKING NEWS: John Edwards will be coming down shortly to announce to the media that "ogni voto sarà contato e tutto voto conterà (pesci de Babele)"
Watching and hoping...
The Italians are going through the nightmare of exit polling
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