The 12:22am poll was delayed, due a "computer glitch".
Throughout the days pollings of 8349, 11027 and 13046 exiting voters, Kerry led Bush 51 - 48%.
The third Prelim exit poll (13,047) had a margin of error of just 0.86%, and it was a random sampling of voters.
At 1:25pm the *Final* exit poll (13,660 respondents...yes, the very same 12:22am 1% MoE sample plus 613 more added) showed Kerry trailing 48 - 51% (!).
All *Final* "exit polls" are not exit polls at all. Rather, the *Final* national exit poll is a "forcing" of the 3rd Preliminary poll's numbers -- i.e., tinkerings with the demographic weights and shares of 13,047 random-selected voters in their answers to a number of categorical questions -- in order to make a match with the vote-share of the recorded vote count. That is, physical "adjustments" are made to each and every categorical question's measured weights and shares in the 3rd Preliminary poll until, arithmetically, each and every category's bottomline vote-share numbers -- which left
un-forced showed Kerry leading 51-48%
througout election day -- were turned around and ended up matching the 48-51
recorded vote count (watched over by the self-annointed likes of the
King Karetaker of the Kount, interviewed 16 months prior the election, in the company of President Fraud himself, GW Bush). Detailed, highlighted examples of the "forcing" of the
Prelim NEP category numbers to the fraudulent
Final NEP numbers can be seen
here. You can see all three Prelim exit poll data as well as the contaminated "forced" Final exit poll results lined up
here, with timestamps and respondent totals included. Again, the 3rd, 12:22am Prelim poll represents a random sample of voters -- Republicans, Democrats, Independents et al -- with a margin of error of less than 1%. It's existence is
only known by way of its Washington Post publication in 2004. By clicking the link for "13047" you'll see the full WaPo publication of the 12:22am exit poll results, as well as analyst Charnin's explanation and demonstration how the bottomline vote share is calculated from the displayed weights and shares within the
gender category, plus his prediction that the truly unique WaPo publication will become a Historic Document.
There are numerous confirmations that the Preliminary NEP vote shares -- and NOT the Final NEP abomination of the standard "forced match" to the vote-count -- are closer to the True Vote share than the Final. I say "closer to the truth" because the 3rd Preliminary exit poll does reflect a little of the vote count data being factored into it.
Two INDEPENDENT confirmations of the Preliminary Bush 48% are provided in the OP, one of which was in the 2006
unadjusted Final Exit Poll!
There are also 51 state exit poll results provided by the Exit Pollster in his standard follow-up Evaluation Report of January 19, 2005 that analyst Charnin
aggregated, making yet another "national" measure of Election 2004 that showed Kerry won 52% to 47%. The latter aggregation of individual state polls comprised a total sample of 114,000+ voters and confirmed the 12:22am Preliminary results and certainly did NOT confirm the Final so-called "exit poll" abomination for purposes of matching the sum of the recorded vote-counts from 50 states +DC.
Applegrove is feeding you "GOP" spin swill. Even Susan Eisenhower rejected that "hijacked GOP" in 2008 and supported Obama. 344,000 known other Republicans joined her between 2006 and 2008 in de-registering from the GOP.
In 2008, corporate heads of the political media at news outlets FOX,CNN,AP,ABC,NBC and CBS totally SUPPRESSED the release of the exit pollster's evaluation report with the unadjusted 51 state exit polls and un-contaminated, un-forced Preliminary natinal; exit polls. That is s COVER UP of ELECTION FRAUD and must be addressed.