Kerry and his 527s spent so much money that they ticked many independent voters off.
They also spent money foolishly. For example they hired people to register new Democrats at 10 dollars per person registered. The people hired quickly figured out they could at best register 2 or 3 people a day. So they just filled out the forms with names and addresses garnered from county directories and Phone books. When they had used all the names in the directories they just made names up. They turned in fake registrations to earn up to a thouand dollars a day. Those that stuck to real registratons could manage 2 or 3 registrations a day. The fakers were turning in a hundred fake registrations a day.
In Ohio about 230 thousand fake registrations were made. The democrats believed these fake people were going to vote. So did the exit pollsters. But the fake people with the fake made up names did not vote. So the exit polls were wrong and Bush had an easy win.
The media bought the fake exit polls. Once again the media including Fox proved they don't know what is going on or if they do know they can't tell us the truth.
That tells us a lot about the media. The kindest description of their performance is they don't know what they are doing.
THIS WILL NOT CHANGE BECAUSE WE REPUBLICANS FAVOR GIVING HARD MONEY DIRECTLY TO THE CAMPAIGNS WE SUPPORT.