Reply #13: exit polls were WAY off in Venezuela [View All]

[Cocoa]

in Chavez's summer 2004 recall election, exit polls (whose results were illegally leaked while voting was going on) showed Chavez losing in a landslide.

The magnitude of that error dwarfs the discrepancy in the Bush-Kerry election.

edit: this observation is in response to this part of your linked article:

Exit polls have a long history of exceptional accuracy in past decades in the US, in the Ukraine, in Latin America, in Germany, and elsewhere. Yet in November 2004, the discrepancy was more than five times this (and similar to that of the invalid Ukraine election.<2>