No Exit Polls [in Massachusetts]

National Review ^

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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.

I hadn't thought of that, but that's awesome!

Nice analysis, Mr. Fund.

[GeronL]

boston.com is a dubious source?

[a fool in paradise]

The Boston Glob is a dishonest rag.

[RobinOfKingston]

... many of the usual accoutrements of closely-contested elections are missing in the Bay State.

One is exit polls.

Bull feathers! They could put that together on 36 hours notice. The big, brave polling companies of all stripes don't wanna get in trouble over speaking the truth on this one.

[tanknetter]

The Brown surge came so suddenly there was no time to plan anything devious beyond the usual negative commercials

What about those angry, pro-Brown robocalls done under the alleged auspices of a pro-life/pro-family organization ... which completely denied having anything to do with them?

[OldDeckHand]

This won't be popular, but we - as a country - should completely do-away with absentee ballots, unless you are stationed overseas working for the US Government or US Military. It is just too available a mechanism for people who wish to fix elections, to fix them.

I'm being absolutely serious when I say that we should adopt a system where we stain the thumb of in-person voters with an indelible ink when they vote.

[kcvl]

According to Rush, Scott Brown is paying for his own exit polls to fill the gap the OLD MEDIA is too lazy to do.

[kcvl]

Hours before a last-day rally for Ms. Coakley, workers pulled a long drape across midcourt at a middle school gymnasium in Framingham, a bedroom community 20 miles west of Boston. The curtain cut the small space in half, but the gym was still only a quarter full, with just a couple of hundred people standing near a podium. Thirty minutes before the event, workers slid back into place a stack of bleachers to prevent a huge gap in front of the candidate

[nfldgirl]

I’m convinced Rush gets a lot of his material just from reading FR...even as he’s doing his show, he and those who work for him behind the scenes are scouring over FR for up-to-date relevant, headline news. So often he’ll mention something that I’ve read, even within hours/minutes of him mentioning and can’t help but wonder if he got it from FR.

[Congressman Billybob]

There are exit polls in the three bellwether districts which have typical spreads of Democrats, independents and Republicans (in order of their numbers) which all were within 1% of the outcome of the last governor's race. All have been reported on the Internet. The LOWEST margin for Brown in those three was +14%.

It looks like a blowout.

John / Billybob

[Yardstick]

I might be that. I’ve thought the same thing myself. On the other hand, it could also be that he reads a lot of the same blogs and news sites that Freepers read. I know he gets a lot of stuff from NRO Corner, Powerline, American Thinker, and several others, and of course a lot of content from those sites gets posted here.

[newfreep]

Good news...and hopefully enough to overcome the voter fraud we all know is occurring even as I type this post.

[spaced]

I kinda like absentee ballots. We used to walk up to the polls to vote almost every election. Then the registrar started moving where we voted - and didn’t stop. Finally we gave up and went with vote-by-mail.

[OldDeckHand]

"I kinda like absentee ballots. We used to walk up to the polls to vote almost every election. Then the registrar started moving where we voted - and didn’t stop. Finally we gave up and went with vote-by-mail."

No one is arguing their convenience, because they certainly are that. But, they are ripe for the picken' by ACORN and their allies to engineer voting fraud.

We have got to do something to seriously and substantively address voter fraud. We may win other national elections, but I don't know if we'll ever win another close national election because of the voter corruption that goes on.

[KTM rider]

In the last election, here in CA I witnessed mobs of people in lines out to the parking lots every day for months before the election at the County recorders offices and they were handing out "provisional ballots" for "Early Voting" by the handfulls without checking ID, the lines were about 95% black and hispanic, I witnessed one man hand in his ballot then went outside and got back in line.

the all black staff at the county recorders office just asked the voter for a name , wrote it down on a clipboard and handed over a ballot.

[ari-freedom]

“This won’t be popular, but we - as a country - should completely do-away with absentee ballots, unless you are stationed overseas working for the US Government or US Military. It is just too available a mechanism for people who wish to fix elections, to fix them.”

I agree. There’s also something to be said about requiring at least some effort in order to vote.

[CondorFlight]

As Stalin said, it doesn’t matter who votes; it matters who counts the votes.

That’s why Republicans need not only to win, but they must always win by huge percentages, in order to overcome machine politics.

[Revel]

“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 problem with exit polls is that they will not reflect the cheating that is going on in MA today. Remember in NY 23 the polls were proved wrong. That is because the voting fraud is massive, and it is a significant part of the vote. Acorn and many others are real busy today. I am hoping that that Browns lead is big enough here to overcome it. But if he looses then it will because the fraud was so huge. That is the only thing that could explain such a result in light of all the pre-election polls.

[RetiredArmy]

No exit polls to hide the cheating on voting.

[Kimberly GG]

Who needs exit polls when the race has already been called?...

http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2010/01/boston-globe-already-publishing-results.html

I’m not buying the “test” explanation...especially when they had data set for every county.