Reply #34: Fascinating bit about exit polls, which applies everywhere but the U.S. [View All]

[daleo]

"Freedom House and the Democratic party's NDI helped fund and organise the "largest civil regional election monitoring effort" in Ukraine, involving more than 1,000 trained observers. They also organised exit polls. On Sunday night those polls gave Mr Yushchenko an 11-point lead and set the agenda for much of what has followed.

The exit polls are seen as critical because they seize the initiative in the propaganda battle with the regime, invariably appearing first, receiving wide media coverage and putting the onus on the authorities to respond."

It sounds like the Democratic party is so busy organizing opposition in the Ukraine, that it couldn't manage to do the same in the U.S.