GOP: Beware the Evil Exit Polls!

Gee, I can’t imagine why Republicans are warning us about about exit polls, can you?

Biased And Inaccurate Predictions Have Led To Poor
GOP Exit Poll Showings In Past Three National Elections

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FAST FACTS ON EXIT POLLING

* Election Experts Believe Exit Polls Give An Edge And Sway Towards Democrat Candidates.

* National Exit Polls Will Skew In Favor Of Democrats This Year, Due To Large Numbers Of Uncontested Democrat Seats In The House Of Representatives.

* Early Exit Polling Returns In 2004 Were Widely Inaccurate, Declaring Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) To Be The Next President Of The United States And Republicans Barely Holding A One Seat Majority In The U.S. Senate.

* In The 2002 Midterm Elections, Exit Polling Produced Unusable Data.

* In 2000, Exit Polling Malfunctioned And Incorrectly Projecting Vice President Al Gore As The Winner Of The Crucial Battleground State Of Florida.

Yes, those evil, liberally biased exit polls are no damn good. Don’t believe anything they say. Except when they’re used in other countries.

And people wonder why I believe the Republicans are going to steal another election. Sheeesh!

7 Comments

spiderleaf on November 7, 2006 at 10:44 am

CNN has been setting the stage for doubt for days… races “too close to call”, polls are inaccurate, weather is a factor, blah blah blah.

I’m holding my breath for what’s to come.

ignorant bystander on November 7, 2006 at 11:44 am

MSNBC too. The Mighty Wurlitzer is in full throat.

spiderleaf on November 7, 2006 at 11:25 am

OT, but not, it appears Greg Palast’s website is down where he has the article “how they stole the mid-term elections” linked from Raw Story… anyone else getting a blank page?

Knoxville Progressive on November 7, 2006 at 11:45 am

I went to Raw Story and tried to link to the story itself and it didn’t work. If you link to the comments you get the following teaser, along with the comments:

Palast: Election was already ‘stolen’

Greg Palast

Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.

Note the past tense. And I’m not kidding.

And shoot me for saying this, but it won’t be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they’ll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.

My attempt to link to the original story also failed.

Could his server have crashed from overload?
Steven D on November 7, 2006 at 11:48 am

Here it is.

supersoling on November 7, 2006 at 11:51 am

There was even a preemptive strike at dKos a few days ago by the (in)famous Febble.

spiderleaf on November 7, 2006 at 12:03 pm

Not that I’m surprised. Ignore the fraud for 2 years and then you need to do pre-emptives just in case all your non-work really does make a difference…

Yeah, exit polls are unreliable ONLY in the USA. And ONLY the last 3 elections.

See also the WSJ piece called “Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs”… repeating the meme that the exit polls the blogs reported in 2004 were just plain old wrong. And with a nice handy graphic to boot.

spiderleaf on November 7, 2006 at 10:44 am

CNN has been setting the stage for doubt for days… races “too close to call”, polls are inaccurate, weather is a factor, blah blah blah.

I’m holding my breath for what’s to come.
- ignorant bystander on November 7, 2006 at 11:44 am
  
  MSNBC too. The Mighty Wurlitzer is in full throat.
spiderleaf on November 7, 2006 at 11:25 am

OT, but not, it appears Greg Palast’s website is down where he has the article “how they stole the mid-term elections” linked from Raw Story… anyone else getting a blank page?
- Knoxville Progressive on November 7, 2006 at 11:45 am
  
  I went to Raw Story and tried to link to the story itself and it didn’t work. If you link to the comments you get the following teaser, along with the comments:
  
  Palast: Election was already ‘stolen’
  
  Greg Palast
  
  Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.
  
  Note the past tense. And I’m not kidding.
  
  And shoot me for saying this, but it won’t be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they’ll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.
  
  My attempt to link to the original story also failed.
  
  Could his server have crashed from overload?
- Steven D on November 7, 2006 at 11:48 am
  
  Here it is.
supersoling on November 7, 2006 at 11:51 am

There was even a preemptive strike at dKos a few days ago by the (in)famous Febble.
- spiderleaf on November 7, 2006 at 12:03 pm
  
  Not that I’m surprised. Ignore the fraud for 2 years and then you need to do pre-emptives just in case all your non-work really does make a difference…
  
  Yeah, exit polls are unreliable ONLY in the USA. And ONLY the last 3 elections.
  
  See also the WSJ piece called “Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs”… repeating the meme that the exit polls the blogs reported in 2004 were just plain old wrong. And with a nice handy graphic to boot.

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