Exit Polls - Bush Won!

No kidding - a new report indicates that the "exit polls say Bush won fair and square", this must really depress the democrats in Ohio fighting the election results not to mention Barbara Boxer who made her grandstand play back on 6 January.

But Edison and Mitofsky said a thorough examination of the survey data demonstrated that Bush won the election fair and square.

“Exit polls do not support the allegations of fraud due to rigging of voting equipment,” the report concluded. “Our analysis of the difference between the vote count and the exit poll at each polling location in our sample has found no systematic differences for precincts using touch screen and optical scan voting equipment.”
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The main impetus for the report was the perception that the NEP exit polls were flawed because they consistently found more support for Kerry than was reflected in the final voting tallies.

Not true, said the report, which found that no “systematic problem in how the exit poll data were collected and processed” explained the inaccuracies.
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Most significantly, “it appears that Democrats are just more likely to take the exit polls than Republicans,” Gawiser said. “ Why does that happen? What can we do to reduce that?”

Well I could have told you not many Republicans would stand around and discuss a vote that they had already cast - I mean what would be the point - I would have told you free of charge. Read the story here.