[Chet 99]

Thought I’d post this since people keep posting supposed exit poll results from dubious sources.

[Nonstatist]

negative commercials — which in this race ran everywhere, including, for the first time in anyone's memory, The Weather Channel.

Manipulating the weather...typical Democraps!

[fatnotlazy]

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.

[Tzimisce]

Reporting the exit polls will make it harder for them to cheat.

[Lou Budvis]

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.

[ElkGroveDan]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

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".

[Wrightclick]

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!

[dead]

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.

[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

[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.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

If I ever got exit-polled?!!! I’d LIE through my teeth just to skew their &^%&%%^#-ing poll!!!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

OR.... I’d ask the pollster, “What part of SECRET BALLOT don’t you people get?”