Say No to Sycophantism

Robert F Kennedy Jr. analyzes the exit polling mess from the 2004 Presidential Election.

"On the evening of the vote, reporters at each of the major networks were briefed by pollsters at 7:54 p.m. Kerry, they were informed, had an insurmountable lead and would win by a rout: at least 309 electoral votes to Bush's 174, with fifty-five too close to call.(28) In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair went to bed contemplating his relationship with President-elect Kerry.(29)"

I voted for John Kerry. Most people I talked to voted for John Kerry, independents/swing-voters/lots of republicans included. On the morning of Nov 3, 2004, when Bush's victory had sunk in, I kept thinking to myself that there was absolutely no way exit polling could be so screwed up. It had never been so screwed up. Then the whole Diebold scandal in Ohio surfaced, coupled with the Pentagon shutting down the overseas registration website, a GOP consultancy firm in Ohio found shredding Democratic voter registrations etc etc, and I realized that the election could have been stolen.