Monday, November 08, 2004Way last Thursday, Mickey Kaus was talking about the exit poll numbers and how badly they missed. Theories include: 1) Demographic of people willing to talk to pollsters was more Democrat. 2) Demographic of early morning voters was more Democrat. 3) Dems sent in operatives to drive up exit poll numbers so that if (when) they leaked, it would be a boost for Kerry.What if... the people polled lied? Living here in California, had I been asked I might just have given a pollster a heartrending tale of how my three best friends died in Iraq and I was voting for Kerry twice. And gone home with a twinkle in my eye. How many Republicans, asked if they were gun totin', sister lovin', abortion hatin' rednecks, might not have said, "Goodness me, I'm with the party of sweetness, light and cookies for all, the Democrats!" just to screw up the polls and issue an ironical screw you to their media betters? In fact, if I were running the Republican operation, I'd advise every committed GOPer to lie to any and every pollster so that when the next elections came around the left-leaning media could sit and stew over just what 95% support for the Democrats really was likely to translate into. So long as the media skews the polls, there's no reason we shouldn't just render them meaningless. 
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