Posted on 11/06/2004 12:25:33 PM PST by forest
AP is never fair and balanced. Ditto Reuters.
How to affect an election: Exit polls.
The idea was to create an expectation of a Kerry win.
They called Kerry states early, but not Bush states.
The American people are noticing liberal media bias.
So we have three major media scams in as many months. All propaganda ploys. All backfired in the face of major media. We know Old Media for what they are.
Bloggers are taking over.
What are the odds of this big of an 'accidental' screw up in the exit polls, which would benefit the DIMs, four years after the last big 'accidental' screw up, the latter causing people not to go out and vote Republican in the Florida panhandle in 2000, which also benefited the DIMs? Something smells funny.
As intended, they succeeded in suppressing the Republican vote in the west where the results were too close for comfort.
Can you imagine how large the president's victory would have been if the rats had not succeeded in suppressing the vote. It would have been a 56 to 44 Bush victory...unheard of in modern times.
Kerry leading Virginia? North Carolina too close to call? As soon as I heard the MSM spinners putting this garbage out, I knew the fix was in. Fortunately, they failed.
I'm just glad that ,for the most part ,everyone here at FR kept their heads and seemed to notice something was wrong with the first exit polls.
And as a P.S. - Couldn't this have backfired by Democrats saying Kerry was going to win so they didn't need to go vote?
We shouldn't. I don't.
You'd think so, but there's a lot of research that says the major impact is that it causes the underdog's supporters to get discouraged.
So much for research!!
Where is that Susan the Witch since election night. She was bragging how she is always right and is all knowing. She is probably in a rubber room about now.
Don't let your guard down or let them get away with the crap they tried to pull in the 2004 election.
Everything from shooting up GOP campaign offices to vandalizing homes, cars, and businesses that had Bush-Cheney signs. It was tantamount to burning a cross in a yard or brownshirts throwing stones through windows.
Also the media lies and distortions (outright fabricated hoax news). Abu Ghraib had genuine abuse that was under investigation but it was not HARSH enough for the media. They had to pose photos of British soldiers urinating on "prisoners" and pull photos from a porn site to show evidence of Americans "raping" "Iraqis". No wonder America lost respect for this war and the terrorists consider us disciples of Satan.
The media is vile/evil and heads MUST roll. My term for what they did is Zogbyism.
The difference between McCarthyism and Zogbyism is that there WERE communists in government whereas President Bush WON the 2004 election.
Probably not. Also, the late voting undecideds were probably affected as they would have been more likely to pull the lever for the "already declared" winner.
The reports that Kerry was having such an early election success and the reports of being so far ahead in PA, and comfortably ahead in FL and OH probably cost Bush PA, WI, and NH. I voted in the morning but I can tell you that I was plenty depressed when I saw the early exit polls being reported and then that being translated into "body language" by the television pundits.
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