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To: LindyBill who wrote (83801)	11/3/2004 7:24:56 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

TERRORIST DEATHWATCH - Official: Arafat's Health Deteriorates JERUSALEM - The condition of Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), in a French hospital for treatment of an unidentified ailment, has deteriorated significantly over the past day, a Palestinian official said early Thursday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed an Israeli TV report that Arafat was in very serious condition. He said that so far doctors have not determined what is wrong with him, as tests have come back without positive results, but Arafat's condition took a turn for the worse on Wednesday. Arafat was flown to the French hospital on Friday, two days after his ailment caused him to lose consciousness for a short time at his west Bank headquarters. Israel's Channel Two TV reported that the Palestinian leader was moved to an intensive care unit in the French military hospital outside Paris, after his condition worsened. story.news.yahoo.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (83801)	11/3/2004 7:36:29 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793964

Michael Barone on the exit polls: Why were the initial exit poll results more Democratic than the actual tabulated vote? No one is sure, though the national sample at midafternoon, which showed Kerry ahead 50 to 49 percent, was 58 percent women. My own suspicion is that some Democrats—at the command level, or somewhere below—had an election-day project of slamming the results. New Hampshire, Minnesota and Pennsylvania initial exit poll results had huge margins for Kerry—much larger percentages than he won in any pre-election poll. If somebody had slipped some Democratic operative the list of exit poll sites—40 to 50 sites in each critical state—he or she could have slipped several hundred operatives into the polling places to take the exit poll ballots and vote for Kerry. The results would have shown Kerry much farther ahead than he actually was and, broadcast through drugdereport.com and other sources, could have heartened Kerry supporters during the afternoon and disheartened Bush supporters. When I was active in Democratic politics, in 1964-80, it would have occurred to us to do no such thing. But Democrats these days are so filled with a sense of grievance and with a feeling of justification for employing any dirty tactics to win, that this is not unthinkable. usnews.com