Posted on 01/19/2010 10:30:21 AM PST by Chet 99
No Exit Polls [Robert Costa]
John Fund of WSJ.com explains:
The Massachusetts Senate race was a complete snoozer until January 5, when pollster Scott Rasmussen released a survey showing Republican Scott Brown trailing Democrat Martha Coakley by only nine points. That surprised many, but still wasn't a true wake-up call that the race would be a barnburner. As late as January 10, the Boston Globe carried a headline trumpeting a poll showing Ms. Coakley with a 15-point lead. Mr. Brown's surge was so sudden that many of the usual accoutrements of closely-contested elections are missing in the Bay State.
One is exit polls. There will be none tonight from Massachusetts, disappointing journalists and political scientists alike. As Mike Allen of Politico.com reports, the consortium of news outlets that normally organizes such surveys didn't bother when the race was expected to be a blowout and now "wasn't confident a reliable system could be built so fast."
Another casualty of the expectation that the race would be a cakewalk for the Democrat will be an absence of absentee ballot fraud, the preferred method of putting an illegal thumb on the scale in a close race. Applications for absentee ballots had to be submitted by last Friday, providing little opportunity for those with ill intent to organize such an effort once they realized the race had tightened up . . . Both parties have concerns about vote fraud or intimidation in today's election. Hundreds of lawyers and observers have been deployed at key polling places. But it's likely to be a relatively quiet election from a litigation angle unless the final margin is razor-thin. The Brown surge came so suddenly there was no time to plan anything devious beyond the usual negative commercials — which in this race ran everywhere, including, for the first time in anyone's memory, The Weather Channel.
Thought I’d post this since people keep posting supposed exit poll results from dubious sources.
Manipulating the weather...typical Democraps!
I don’t see how anyone could post a valid exit poll this early in the day.
Even so, those polls have been known to be wrong. I wouldn’t pay a whole lot of attention to them.
Dem opps are really feeling positive on the Cable channels today. Hope they are trying to put on a good face. Go Brown!
Are these not real?
http://www.charlotteconservative.com/index.php/2010/01/brown-coakley-exit-polls/
Reporting the exit polls will make it harder for them to cheat.
Remember the Bush/Kerry exit polls....Kerry was ready to pick out the curtains for the Oval Office.
My best guess is that this guy is confused. These numbers arent from an exit poll but from the bellwether polls released yesterday by Suffolk University.
Bellwether poll accuracy rate is 96%
Those numbers for the three “Bellweather Areas” of Massachusetts were reported yesterday. I do not believe those are exit polls from today.
Yeah...and I was thinking: “Wow Suffolk was right on the money!”. LOL
Those are bogus. They’re the results of last minute polling from what are considered bellweather districts. The numbers are correct but they’re from a pre-election poll...not today’s exit polls.
I’m glad. Exit polls showing a big lead for Brown could suppress people voting later in the day for him. Gotta get out the vote like like we’re down a point.
Have we had any of the very predictable complaints of not enough ballots and polls closed in minority neighborhoods yet? Got to set up the civil rights lawsuit ASAP don’t you know.
One is exit polls. There will be none tonight from Massachusetts, disappointing journalists and political scientists alike. As Mike Allen of Politico.com reports, the consortium of news outlets that normally organizes such surveys didn't bother when the race was expected to be a blowout and now "wasn't confident a reliable system could be built so fast."
The Pravda Media says "nothing to see here, move along".
And can we also dispense with people feeling the need to post every smirk, frown, sneeze from some “operative” as indications of anything.
These people have no honest clue, and they are paid to represent their people.
This is the time of day bored people are way too anxious to find something to add.
I’m waiting for accusations of potbellied tobacco chewing sheriffs with big dogs and shotguns at all the minority heavy precincts.
I hope Brown pulls it off, but I doubt we will be able to count on catching the dems with their pants down next time.
They’ll be ready. We had better be ready too!
I’m sitting here reading the post when Rush starts to read the same thing over the air. Kind of funny.....
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