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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (24657)	1/3/2005 5:19:54 PM
From: WWWWWWWWWW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The national polls leading up to the election showed Bush slightly ahead. Then, on Election Day, suddenly some of the exit polls said Kerry was ahead. But, when the actual results were counted, Bush came out slightly ahead, just like the pre-election polls predicted. What's easier to believe, a slightly out-of-whack exit poll methodology, or national election fraud? Across the board, across the country, Bush gained votes from 2000. Whatever "fraud" you are suggesting would have had to have been nationwide. I believe the exit pollsters just got it wrong. And when John Edwards, the stubborn trial lawyer, concedes it's over... it's over. If there was a glimmer of hope, he (as well as the DNC and Kerry's lawyers) would be all over it.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (24657)	1/3/2005 5:33:45 PM
From: WWWWWWWWWW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Food for thought, spotted this in the Washington Post about the exit polls: "A total of 13,047 randomly selected voters were interviewed Tuesday as they left their polling places, and those results were fed into computers. The accumulated results were reported several times over the course of Election Day. "Results based on the first few rounds of interviewing are usually only approximations of the final vote. Printouts warn that estimates of each candidate's support are unreliable and not for on-air use. Those estimates are untrustworthy because people who vote earlier in the day tend to be different from those who vote in the middle of the day or the evening. For instance, the early national sample Tuesday that was 59 percent female probably reflected that more women vote in the day than the evening." ...and as we know, in this election, more women voted for Kerry than for Bush. There's a good example of how exit polls can be wrong.