Exit polls have always been nearly perfectly accurate. In fact, most projections of winners in elections are based almost entirely on exit polls. This time, though, in the two states that decided the election, they were way off. In every other state, polls being conducted by the same organizations in the same way were exactly right. This means that people coming out of the polls in Ohio and Florida lied in massive numbers to pollsters. They voted for one guy, walked outside and told the exit pollers that they had voted for the other guy. Weird, huh?
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I have no doubt in my mind that this election was stolen, or at the very least highly manipulated. All of the overt dirty tricks were likely just a distraction while much more subtle and effective tactics were being employed to ensure that Bush would win. Never before have professional pollsters been so wrong.
We'll also almost certainly be told that all of the fears about electronic voting machines were unfounded, but there's no way to prove this, and that's the point. Just because the machines didn't go crazy and start spewing smoke doesn't mean they counted the votes accurately. We'll never know.
No one is going to provide an explanation for any of this, because they don't have to. They'll say we have to move forward. The time for partisan bickering is over, now we're all Americans.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that label anymore.
