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Monday, January 24, 2005

Exit Poll Companies Attempt Whitewash

The research firms that designed the $10 million polling system used by news organizations during last year's presidential election have concluded that the system erroneously showed John Kerry to be leading the race not because of a technological breakdown but because of more human variables. These included the relative youth of the pollsters, who were more successful securing interviews with supporters of Mr. Kerry as they left polling places than with those of the actual winner, President Bush.

As Thom Hartmann points out, these polling companies would have us believe that in battleground states where Kerry was predicted by the exit polls to win but then lost, there happened to be these "human variables," but these "human variables" did not exist in other states where the exit polls were accurate. How convenient. What a farce!

Jack Clark 4:59 PM [+]   
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