Reply #6: That's the idea-- in 2004 they started criticizing polls too late to cover up stolen election [View All]

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Remember all those earnest discussions in the corporate media about how exit polls could be just so far off the mark that they had the final vote tallies flipped, showing Kerry winning? Even though we trust exit polls to evaluate the soundness of elections around the world, somehow, U.S. polling firms with solid reputations were impugned during the TV talk about the 2004 election. Those discussions took place to drown out all the additional comments from the field about various methods of vote manipulation employed by the Republicans-- distribution of voting machines-- too few in Democratic areas, challenging particular voters to slow voting down to a crawl, not counting provisional ballots, voter roll caging lists, etc.

That's why it looks to me like this year the corporate media is just starting earlier to question polls to make sure to give the public a longer-standing memory that you just can't trust those darn polls. Let those wild swings and discrepancies sink into public consciousness now, so that when the election is stolen again, people will have those memories and say to themselves-- "See, you just can't trust those polls."

I may as well go a step further and wonder which organizations might be deliberately skewing their polling samples to demonstrate that you can't trust polls. Whoops, you see, you're right, we just screw up sometimes.