"How about Susan Estrich? She took the polls as gospel."
She probably intuitively knew it was skewed, but figured it would depress turnout, so made a big deal of it.
The skewed exit poll was similiar to the bogus claim that ohio had 275,000 provisional votes yet to be counted. This number turned out to be a figment of Joe Lockhart's imagination after it had been repeated countless times by the three big networks.
Whatever you believe about the skewed exit polls, it is wonderful poetic justice that the mainstream-media misled their own constituancy (the left) into believing the swill they were putting out, leading them from the heights of euphoria to the depths of depression.
As if the left wasn't bi-polar enough already - the MSM accentuated their disease.