KimC,


I thought it was pretty common knowledge that polls are pretty much crap, no matter how you slice them. Pollsters frequently ask questions a certain way to ensure they get a certain answer. Or at least that's what I saw on the news once.

It's pretty common knowledge that when you have to qualify pretty much every clause with a pretty vague qualifier like "pretty," you pretty likely don't know what you're talking about.

Also, when you base your opinion about a set of complex theoretical and practical issues on something you once saw on TV you're in trouble.

Some polls are accurate, others are not. But "pretty much crap no matter how you slice them" is simply a value judgment with no objective meaning.

The question asked in an exit poll is "whom did you vote for?" How can you ask that in a certain way to get a certain answer? I suppose you could say "did you vote for KERRY or for bush?" but that would probably not affect the response.

Exit polls are usually very accurate, as I said, and this time they were not. To resist finding out why is

1) lazy
2) incurious
3)convenient if you support Bush's agenda.