WASHINGTON POST BREAKING: EXIT POLLS SHOW KERRY WON!

[TruthIsAll]

Read all about it!

WASHINGTON POST BREAKING: EXIT POLLS SHOW KERRY WON!

According to Mitofsky/Edison, the National Exit Pool poll:

Has a margin of error (MOE) of less than 1%!
Is a randomly-selected sample of 13,047!
Results may change "slightly"!

How did he win?

Kerry won all regions except the South!

New voters flocked to Kerry 57-41%!

Independents went for Kerry 52-44%!

Moderates went for Kerry 57-42%!

Women went for Kerry 54-45%!

People said that Kerry cared more about them by 76-22%!

They said Kerry would more likely bring about needed change: 95-4%!

Kerry wins the popular vote by 2-3% after adjusting for characteristic weights!

This is clearly a mandate for change!

[Walt Starr]

Is this thread leftover from the redundant repetition department bureau?

:eyes:

[codegreen]

1. don't see the headline on their site... link?

[s-cubed]

2. Okay, TIA, come clear: what's the date of that article?

:)

[TruthIsAll]

11. READ THIS LINK. ITS THE 12:23 AM SAMPLE OF 13047

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x219264

[Pallas180]

3. This is supposed to be a surprise? As a poll watcher on Nov 2

in Florida I knew that 6 out of each 100 (if as much as 6) voted for the current moron in the whitehouse.

The question is why did Kerry give in immediately.

[AmerDem]

4. TIA are going

coo coo for cocoa puffs. Chill out a bit. That's a great graphic showing fantastic figures but you have posted already and it the WP really doesn't use the terminology you're posting.

[Verve]

5. I don't get it TIA? Where's the link? Please don't play with us about

the media picking up your awesome stats. We're all very fragile right now.

[lostnfound]

6. Obviously this was the day after the election

It is quite a reminder, TIA.

The gif properties include 11-2-04 in the title.

[pnorman]

10. Me too! Like others here, I don't need any bogus or misleading information

When I see a "smoking gun" like this, I generally run with it. I don't mind so much being personally embarassed, but it does great harm to the point I'm trying to make. A search of "Mitofsky" on WP, yielded only this:

A Dominant GOP? How So?
The Election Proves Only That the Voters Remain Closely Divided

By Scott Turow
Sunday, December 26, 2004; Page B02

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• George W. Bush's popular-vote margin over John Kerry is the lowest ever recorded by an incumbent president -- slightly less than 2.5 percent of the more than 120 million votes cast, including absentee and provisional ballots that have now been tallied. Since 1824, when the national popular vote was first recorded, 14 presidents have been elected to serve again. Woodrow Wilson held the previous record for the closest popular-vote margin by a sitting president, 3.2 percent in the 1916 election.
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According to the national exit poll, conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for a broad pool of American news organizations, voters 60 and older were 24 percent of the electorate this year. (Hispanics, by contrast, were only 8 percent.) In 2000, Al Gore beat Bush in this age group, 51 to 47 percent. This time, the president ran seven percentage points ahead of his 2000 totals. That's a dramatic pickup. Had those 7 percent voted for Kerry instead, he would have narrowly won the popular vote and, with the same gain in Ohio, the Electoral College.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26059-2004Dec25.html

[Dr.Phool]

7. New years is over

And we're getting warmed up for April Fools Day!

[papau]

8. TIA - nice redoing of the WaPO fake chart numbers - but as you can

see, only us old farts remember the WaPo article with the "fixed" after midnight exit poll data!!!

God forbid we ever get a retraction from the WaPo.

sigh....

:toast:

:-)

[SlowDownFast]

9. dude, what's with the dupe posts?

first you mislead by intimating that the WP has just come out with a breaking story about Kerry winning....

and then you duplicate it minutes later.

i've seen some of your interesting statistical analysis of the election posts, and that's cool, but come on, man...this is too much.

are you on some kind of medication? Did you forget to take it?

edit: i mean that seriously, too.

[TruthIsAll]

13. No meds for me. But there are sure a lot of heads exploding around here.

The data is real.

That's all that matters.

tia

[TruthIsAll]

14. SORRY FOR THE DUPE. IT WAS UNINTENTIONAL. IT HAPPENS.

NO BIG DEAL.

GOT YOUR ATTENTION, THOUGH, DIDN'T I?

[Botany]

12. Next thing the post will get on .....

The Lindbergh Baby Story .....

:kick: