Fox Dumps Exit Polls (biased 8% toward Dems)

Fox News | 11/7/06

[pabianice]

Just announced -- Fox is dumping exist polls after determining that they are biased towards Dems 6-8+ percent. Will use just raw vote totals for rest of election.

[My Favorite Headache]

This feels like the morning of 9-11..I am watching helplessly as America is attacked from within and planes are going down across the country.

America.....you have no idea what you have asked for today.

[Palladin]

Well, DUH! Barone finally saw the light?

[Arpege92]

"I have been exit polled. I told them to bite me. Clearly counted as a dem vote."

LOL clearyly!!!

[jbwbubba]

Kristol is all about immigration, he thinks if the GOP loses big it will prove that the house GOP was wrong about the fence and hard line approach.

[gidget7]

creek I think we might to well not to watch LOL They are calling Deval with only 1% of the precincts reported!!

It's nutS! I may just wait and find out tomorrow. It isn't worth watching everyone get so upset here, and then learn the "call" was untrue.

[Williams]

Fox has called RI for dems Senate as well.

[unkus]

I was exit polled in 2000 and told them I voted Dim

[TommyDale]

They just called several races, based on exit polling data.

[unixfox]

Fox has just jumped into the MSM the shark.

[weegee]

On the contrary. The exit polls (phony as they may be) are a good way to depress the Republican vote and supress turnout on election day.

Calling races before the polls close is another of their tricks ("go home, your vote doesn't matter!").

[kittymyrib]

Yes, MD should still be in play because they had over 150,000 absentee ballots to count. I heard earlier today that it might not be until Thursday that they would have the final figures.
We ought to rain abuse on Fox for their pathetic coverage tonight. I watched "Friday Night Lights" instead.

[rampage8]

just curious... why?

[BurtSB]

good line.

[Enchante]

"biased towards Dems 6-8+ percent"

Hasn't this been true for at least several elections, dating back at least to 1992???? It certainly happened in 2004, and I recall reading that exit polls were giving Bill Clinton (UGH) a 12 point margin over President Bush, Sr. in 1992 when the final margin turned out to be 7% (shouldn't even have been that if not for an extremely biased MSM). Any MSM that still relies upon such exit polls in 2006 is either extremely biased or exceptionally incompetent (or both). Which is it, FOXNews???

[StockAyatollah]

Didn't they call Maryland? What was that based on?

Strong graveyard turnout in Baltimore City and Montgomery County.

[reasonisfaith]

"Then why do they keep calling races anyway?"


They are attempting to create their own reality. As always but on election night they’re completely nuts.

[madison10]

About 5% of the vote. They are calling these WAY too early when the exit polls favor Libs.

[lesser_satan]

Oooh, I like that!