BEWARE OF EXIT POLLS (Unless you want the truth)

[Flabbergasted]

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

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.

[thepurpose]

1. Supposely its changed a lot this year because of those problems. Lets

hope so. The people doing it don't want to be totally discounted so they have changed their methods a lot to prevent the same errors.

[Phredicles]

2. I still wonder, though, how come exit polling in other countries is

always somehow more accurate than it turns out to he here. Hmmmmm...

[Flabbergasted]

3. It was the sole basis for overturning the Ukraine Election a few yrs ago

[theoldman]

4. Maybe it's because their elections are honest.

[yellowdogmi]

5. Come on

I'm ready to open the champagne. Tell me it's over. please!

[elperromagico]

7. My advice would be this:

1) Drink several bottles of champagne.

2) Pass out.

3) Wake up in a week and hopefully the dust will have cleared.

[Skink]

6. As long as we don't see W hanging with James Baker were cool.