Posted on 11/04/2004 11:50:34 AM PST by finnman69
LIBERALS (EVENTUALLY) DESPAIR.
The expectations had gotten so out of control that, on Tuesday afternoon, we reporters gathered in the ballroom of the Fairmont Copley Plaza had already moved on to the second-, third-, and fourth-day stories. The exit polls seemed to show such a clear sweep of the battleground states for John Kerry that the news of his victory already seemed stale. What would the more solidly Republican Senate mean for Kerry's ambitious health care plan? Who would he appoint to replace ailing Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist? Most important, how could Kerry co-opt John McCain, a Republican frontrunner for the 2008 presidential election? Yep, it's true. We were already speculating about the dynamics of Kerry's reelection campaign. Some got to work on pieces about the transition. A newspaper reporter at a major daily polished an article about George W. Bush's concession speech. Now that we "knew" the winner, the whole campaign seemed so obvious. The Swift Boat attacks had come too early to do any real damage. The Clintonites added late in the campaign were geniuses. Karl Rove's base strategy was delusional.
A feedback loop between staffers and the media only reinforced the dangerously wrong conventional wisdom. Everywhere, Blackberries clicked and crackled as people beamed each other the addictive exit polls. With Kerry aides floating among the press corps, conversations evolved from "What are you hearing?" in the morning to "Are you moving to Washington?" in the afternoon. I compared notes with Jamie Rubin, a senior foreign policy adviser. He popped open a message on his PDA that showed two long columns of state abbreviations and numbers. The first line showed Kerry ahead by 17 points in one swing state. We agreed to swap any new numbers that came our way. The exit polls were like crack.
(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...
Their site is getting hammered since Rush mentioned it.
It's a must read for post election gloating.
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=W%2Fq4pRGfjGF3o35zwXu6CB%3D%3D
or read it posted here to annoy liberal NYers:
http://newyork.urbanbaby.com/bbs/get.php3?id=2650903
already posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270551/posts
"The exit polls were like crack."
How would he KNOW?
From the article: "The first line showed Kerry ahead by 17 points in one swing state. We agreed to swap any new numbers that came our way. The exit polls were like crack".
Well here's the proof - they were on crack the whole time!
For later reading
At a certain point late in the evening, all signs of the Kerry campaign vanished. Many advisers deserted the Fairmont, with its swarming hordes of reporters, and retreated to the neighboring Westin, where much of Kerry's staff was ensconced. Our last official contact with the staff was around 12:30 Wednesday morning, when Mike McCurry and Lockhart cruised through the press filing center and made an unconvincing case that Kerry would carry Ohio. Soon, e-mails stopped being returned. There were no signs of the candidate himself. A reporter for The Washington Times on body-watch duty actually tiptoed close enough to Kerry's Beacon Hill mansion to catch a glimpse of the senator. "Mr. Kerry," he e-mailed other reporters, "with his unmistakable coif and profile, appeared in the window, clear as day. He passed back and forth and ducked down several times as if picking up papers off the floor. [I] watched him for several minutes but, alas, he has disappeared. There appears to be no more activity in that window."
The scene among supporters gathered for the victory celebration in front of the Boston Public Library was dreary. A light rain fell on the crowd. Many cameramen and producers, waiting around all day, had retreated underneath the scaffolding of the press riser for protection, an area that had taken on the look of a squatters' camp for the homeless. When the two giant TV screens flashed Tom Brokaw's visage at 1 a.m., the crowd collectively held its breath. "It's our projection that George W. Bush is the winner of the twenty electoral votes in Ohio," he said. The reaction was a spooky, almost total, silence. "We'll be back from Democracy Plaza," Brokaw said as he cut to commercial. A smattering of people yelled a short-lived and half-hearted chant of "bullsh*t." Al Franken, the liberal comedian and radio host, looked dumbfounded. "Sh*t," he said. NBC's coverage was zapped off, and a black gospel choir stepped onto the stage. The soloist sang an eerie, beautiful version of "God Bless America." The crowd watched in frozen silence as rain drizzled down.
oh I do enjoy reading that
I love that word.
I overheard a NY Liberal telling someone else Tuesday PM how their friend at NPR was describing exit polls to her and she gloated "they are better than you can imagine".
LMAO
I almost feel sorry for Kerry's people! Can you imagine having your hopes up like that, only to have your very spirit crushed later on?! Oh well, better them than us! ;-)
The exit polls seemed to show such a clear sweep of the battleground states for John Kerry
Of course the exit polling was only amongst the dead, and the dead always vote for the democrat.
However, the excellant work of the Republican poll watchers kept the dead burried in cuyahoga county Ohio, and finaly they can rest in pease.
They don't get it,they will NEVER get it!
They truly believe that they are right and the rest of us are wrong.They truly believe it.
I am surrounded with them and they will never realize that most people don't look upon things the way they do.
They are a cult---no more,no less!!!!!
almost....but not quite
They were supposed to send the homeless people to the polls not the victory party.
Does anyone have any information on the plans for the
Kerry transition?
I would like to read it
Feel sorry for them!? They're the most crooked, meanspirited, dirty excuses for human beings I've ever observed. Look at what they've done over the past year. Right up to the end. They tried to steal this election with phony exit polls to depress the GOP turnout. That's illegal. Somebody should go to jail. Thank God for Limbaugh and Hannity on the radio from noon to six pm telling people to ignore those polls and keep on voting.
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