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klyon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:00 PM
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I believe we should lie to all polls especially exit polls
These crooks are going to steal this election, George can not afford a Dem in the White House. The man responsible for the 2000, and 2004 thefts now works for McCain and the fix is in but he needs good data to know how many votes to flip. So I propose that we all confuse the polls by giving them bad data. The exit polls will probably be their final numbers so if they are wrong then they will not steal enough to win. I think this is our only hope of winning and bring this administration to justice. Any thoughts?
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:03 PM
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1. Please don't
I work for a Democratic-leaning membership organization that uses past exit polls to help figure out how many of its members it needs to persuade and turn out. If you screw around with the exit polls it makes it harder for us to help Democrats win in the future.
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klyon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:30 PM
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13. sorry they just change them anyway, I've made up my mind
lie lie lie
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:33 PM
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15. I'll give you credit for returning to this thread; the rest, not so much.
It's a really stupid idea on many levels.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:04 PM
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2. I'm in. (Edited to add: *not* the exit polls - other polls)
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 06:07 PM by tbyg52
I know that was in the title, just not in my mind....! Before that, sure.

I already give false data when I have no reason of my own to give real data. I also pay cash for everything..... ;->
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:04 PM
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3. No! Exit polls may be the prime evidence...
If and when they try to steal another election!
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:05 PM
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4. I think that the polls are the only evidence we have when they steal the election, So if we lie we
remove any possibility of showing the discrepancy in the vote tally.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:10 PM
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5. Normally I'd agree, but discrepancies have been shown in the past
and nothing has happened! There's no reason to think the same things won't happen again.
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:15 PM
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6. Not the exit polls. Those show when votes are stolen like Kerry v Bush
Exit polls showed 51 Kerry, 48 Bush. Election fraud results showed the opposite.
Kerry was pushed to concede quickly. Lots of different methods of election manipulation were used, so each single instance wasn't considered significant enough to change the outcome at the time. Only a year or two later the study results come in about how much was stolen.


www.uncountedthemovie.com has a lot of information.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:19 PM
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8. Yep, we know 2004 was stolen.
Now I want to see Bush booted out and Kerry put in. (Yeah, right.....)

I must admit there's more attention to this issue - I just hope it's enough to keep the same thing from happening in 2008.
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:38 AM
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18. The hasty concessions are a problem, with the multiple methods of election fraud in play.
There are 5,000 votes "lost" here, and 10,000 uncounted over there for a different reason, and each one sounds like chump change so people can shout us down as "conspiracy theorists" when we call them out.
Those few votes won't make a difference, we were told. Even actually liberal media like David Corn at the Nation told us we were nuts. We had to just recognize the sad truth that Kerry had lost. (I canceled my subscription to the Nation because that was so disheartening.)

We even had TV talk sessions about how those exit polls we have used to judge the fairness of other countries' elections, were somehow all flawed in Bush-Kerry 2004. The consolidated conservative corporate media all dutifully carried out the earnest discussion to soothe our confusion about how the exit polls got things so wrong.

I'm afraid not enough has been done to remedy the problems. I can only hope that the Republicans know they need Democratic leadership to clean up their messes once again. Clinton Gore were needed to clean up the huge Reagan deficits and gave baby Bush a surplus. Now the Spend-and-Tax-the-Kids Republicans need help again, so perhaps they'll allow Obama to claim his victory.


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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:44 AM
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19. And that if Democrats are allowed to win
They take the opportunity to throw all those DREs in the harbor. What I'm worried about is that they won't. This does not seem to be a big issue anywhere but the grassroots.
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NorthCarolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:18 PM
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7. Is this another GOP tactic to lend credibility to another stolen election
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 06:19 PM by mrone2
by having the exit polls seem to back a McCain win?

on edit: typo
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:21 PM
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9. Yeah, and the sad part is
that if the exit polls showed a discrepancy that cost a *Republican* an election, you can bet it would get taken seriously and investigated. I believe that translates to "you can't win." That's what *their* rulebook says, anyway....
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NorthCarolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:30 PM
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14. Maybe the truly sad part is that enough unwitting Dems will think something like this IS a good idea
and actually say they voted McCain to exit pollsters with the thought that they are being "clever" as opposed to the fact that they were being "used".
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:51 AM
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20. Grasping at straws
at least I know *I* am. The exit polls don't match the votes, discredit the exit polls. It's worked before, rendering them meaningless. The only thing they seem to be used for in this modern world (with regard to the actual current election, anyway)is to fine-tune the rigging.

The real solution - throw the DREs in the harbor.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:23 PM
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10. What do you mean? Why lie? How does saying I voted for someone I didn't vote for
help us? Actually, doesn't that help them steal the election for John McCain.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:23 PM
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11. Bad idea, very bad idea. And on so many levels. nt
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 06:27 PM
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12. Honesty & hard work for Obama vs this triple ricochet slap shot thru the goalie's legs scenario.
This is a bad idea. Please don't game the system.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 07:06 PM
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16. I think that is how they beat kerry. By messing with the exit polls early
in the day. So I'm all for lying during exit polls. Not the the MSM would ever ask who you are voting for on exit polls they got so burned the last time.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 08:38 AM
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17. No-win situation
Tell the truth, they use it to game the system. Lie, and they investigate if it's *their* guy that doesn't look right in the polls.

The problem is those damn paperless wonders they foisted on us.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 12:32 PM
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22. I don't agree. I agree with the reluctant responder theory that says
the error was in the exit polls.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 12:37 PM
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23. Wow. nt
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 01:22 PM
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24. Yup. I agree with the MSM on that one. Except that I think that is how
the gop stole the elections: by putting out exit polls that were favourable to Kerry early in the day so that the GOP voters were motivated to go to the polls while Kerry supporters relaxed and didn't vote at the end of the day. That is how I think it was stolen. Lying GOP voters at exit polls.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 05:32 AM
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25. So you think the R's *did* what the OP is suggesting
and that it *worked*?

Wow. Any additional info/links on this theory? I'm interested.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 01:22 PM
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27. Look up the reluctant responder theory and just remember how far
Edited on Thu Aug-14-08 01:24 PM by applegrove
ahead Kerry was in the exit polls until about 10:00 PM that election night. And though I think nobody should answer exit polls (like the OP said) that is as far as I agree with him. But I don't even think the MSM asks the question "who did you vote for" because they were so burnt in 2004.
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:03 AM
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21. I always get there early
in the first three or four in line when the poll opens. I've never been "exit-polled", maybe pollsters don't get up that early.

The bad part is that I'm always done before the campaigners get out there passing out leaflets, coffee, and donuts. I'm willing to sell my vote for a chocolate covered donut.

:hi:
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 06:06 AM
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26. You're muddying the waters. It's a terrible idea nt
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