"Exit polls are almost never wrong," Morris wrote. "So reliable are the surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the polling places that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries. - To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here."
But instead of following his logic that the discrepancy suggested vote tampering - as it would in Latin America, Africa or Eastern Europe - Morris postulated a bizarre conspiracy theory that the exit polls were part of a scheme to have the networks call the election for Kerry and thus discourage Bush voters on the West Coast. Of course, none of the networks did call any of the six states for Kerry, making Morris's conspiracy theory nonsensical. Nevertheless, some Democrats have agreed with Morris's bottom-line recommendation that the whole matter deserves "more scrutiny and investigation"
Frankly, I think that was a stupid blunder by Dick Morris, but I suspect the GOPuglies will be working overtime to prove this was what happened. It makes no sense whatsoever. How would the Democrats be able to coordinate such a silly proposal anyway? Every exit pollster was a Democrat spy? Whatever. The good thing here is that, blunder or no, Morris' added attention to the issue will have helped to keep the question alive, and any added scrutiny and investigation can only be a positive thing.
I don't want John Kerry for a president. I don't want a Democrat for a president. But I do want our country returned to a fair and open democracy where your vote actually is counted the way you cast it. Let's keep this issue alive. Pass it around.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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