Report: Exit polls overpolled Democrats

[kuozzman]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/exit.polls/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Exit polls overstated John Kerry's share of the vote on November 2, both nationally and in many states, because more Kerry supporters participated in the survey than Bush voters, according to an internal review of the exit-polling process released Wednesday.

The report said it is difficult to pinpoint precisely why, in general, Kerry voters were more likely to participate in the exit poll than were Bush voters. "There were certainly motivational factors that are impossible to quantify," the report said.

Problems with the numbers first surfaced on Election Day, when exit polls showed Kerry with a 3-point lead nationally and an edge in some key battleground states. Those exit poll results were leaked and became widely known through the Internet.



:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[bleever]

1. Maybe more Kerry voters talked to pollsters because

THERE WERE SO GODDAMNED MANY OF THEM!!!

:mad:

:nuke:

[cruadin]

2. Is this a political whitewash or are the networks and the....

polling companies they hired just covering their collective asses?

[Zenlitened]

3. Alternative headline: Facts being re-worked to fit offical "History"

[ingasm]

4. Reason being....

Bush voters could not read the survey.

[WI_DEM]

5. and the voting machines over counted Bush votes.

[enki23]

6. this really sounds like ad hoc bullshittery

i see nothing whatsoever in that article to explain what evidence there is that this is actually the case. it looks like purely circular reasoning (the vote tallies are correct, therefore the exit polls oversampled democrats, therefore the vote tallies are legitimate.)

[Moderator]

7. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1164449