Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Neil Cavuto wonders why “we put a lot of stock” into exit polls when pollsters “get it wrong a lot.” Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway agrees that we put “too much stock” in exit polls. Conway goes on to blame the media, “who are running their own polls” and reminds viewers that, “these are the same media who ran polls in 2000 on election night declaring Al Gore the winner, 2004 declaring John Kerry the winner according to exit polls and here we are again.” And even though she claims to be a pollster, Conway strangely adds that, “exit polling is not scientific. It’s illustrative. It’s fun.”
Finally the conversation turns to the question of race in exit polling where, according to Conway, “people use pollster to lie to themselves”. The reason for this is that people like to “make themselves sound more progressive”.
Gee, I wonder what the people who protested in the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine in 2004 would have to say about the reliability of exit polls…. hey, even the Bush Administration said that the exit polls were correct then!
This is simply another attack on science by those that want to rule sheeple… Exit polls aren’t scientific? Statistics aren’t scientific? Mathematics isn’t scientific?
wow.. news to me. And, like DES says, the rest of the world uses them and understands them.. and we only seem to see this kind of “problem” in the U.S. in -certain circumstances-, not in all cases.. Odd..