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glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:09 AM
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Koppel gave a phony reason for why the exit polls didn't match the vote!
Edited on Thu Jan-20-05 12:10 AM by glarius
This was a cooked up explanation. If the question was asked "who did you vote for?" and the answer was "I don't want to tell you" (obviously they didn't say I'm voting for Bush but I don't want to tell you)....how do the pollsters know whether the voters who wouldn't answer were for Bush or for Kerry?....This is a phony theory!
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mrstick Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:11 AM
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1. word on the street is that Koppel did an inside the beltway report
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:12 AM
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2. The entire show was phony
Whitewash.
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:12 AM
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3. I truly believe now that
there are no honest, couragous reporters left here. None on TV anyway.
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:13 AM
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4. Corporate Media Whitewash...
At your service, again....
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:23 AM
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5. Gee, Ted, you must like taking the vote from Minority voters!
Inner City voters had to wait HOURS to vote while their white suburban counterparts had NO PROBLEMS voting.

"Klanboy Ted"

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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:28 AM
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6. Of course it is phony. They have no way of knowing
why exit polls did not match the official results, if they say their exit polls were wrong. How in the world would they know why their exit polls were wrong, if they were wrong to begin with?
The only way they could know is if they contacted all those voters again, and some voters admitted they lied when polled, but they obviously didn't do that. So, HTF did they arrive to their stupid conclusion, using their "false exit polls"?
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 12:30 AM
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7. I agree. That's garbage.
Perhaps we can come up with a better one.
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glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:00 AM
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8. How come Zogby's poll matched the exit polls?
I'm sure I heard him say this after the election.
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-05 01:09 AM
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9. A pollster told me that the reason the exit polls didn't match
Is that the early polls were biased in favor of females and democrats. It wasn't yet a representative sample. They get adjusted at the end to match the actual outcome.
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