Here's a big surprise: Gop.com: "Beware of Exit Polls" !!!11

[Habibi]

http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6718

"Exit polls traditionally have a Democrat (sic) bias."

Oy. Setting up the faithful.

[KeepItReal]

1. John King on CNN just dissed last elections exit polls saying "They were weighted wrong"

...and were released too early.

So CNN is not gonna be mentioning exit polls until somt time tonight.

[PATRICK]

11. They have been in decline for years

and every election they whine they need re-weighting to account for their successful vote suppression and theft. One really fair election and the GOP would be more worried about being overtaken by the Greens or Libertarians for the second spot.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Odd, that.......

the first time in history that all the exit polls were wrong. :eyes: I wonder why? :mad:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. The Unweighted Polls Showed Dukakis Beating Bush In 88...

eom

[Igel]

14. And let's not forget Mitrofsky's famous call for Feinstein to

be governor in California.

Issued to the media, but somebody was suspicious and checked with another poll ... showing that Feinstein clearly was *not* the winner. Mitrofsky's call for Feinstein was promptly shelved pending counting the votes.

There was the bad call for NJ governor. Three different length forms. Who knew that dems would be insulted given a short form and refuse to fill it out, while repubs would complete the short form but not like the long form?

Early exit polls ... bad. Even final exit polls have been ... bad.

It's all in the assumptions ... the weightings and how you handle the non-respondents. All the rest of the banter is confirmation bias speaking.

[DeeDeeNY]

13. Not all exit polls.

Just the ones where voting was done electronically.
Hmmm, I wonder why that could be. Must be a coincidence!
:sarcasm:

[still_one]

3. Most important thing is GETTING OUT TO VOTE, and

making sure your vote is registered correctly

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Exit polling is NOT rocket-science...

You ask people leaving the polls who they just voted for. That info is reported to a central agency (traditionally, Voter News Service). VNS reports the results.

Unbelievable!:grr:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. It's Still A Random Sample And Suffers All The Problems Inherent In A Random Sample...

I'm not getting burned this time like in 04... I'm going to be watching with a "jaundiced" eye..

[baldguy]

6. Not bias for Democrats - bias for the truth.

When you start to believe your own propaganda over reality, the you're doomed.

[acmejack]

7. "Reality has a notorious liberal bias"-S Colbert

[magellan]

8. That "tradition" started in 2000

...when exit polls showed Dem wins that magically went to the Repugs, and they had to explain it by sowing distrust of the exit polls.

[Apollo11]

10. No wonder

Exit polls don't take vote-theft into account.

[MUAD_DIB]

12. What does "!!!11" mean?

[Habibi]

15. It's freeper punctuation.

:)