Olbermann covering exit polling screw-up

His latest blog post on the difference between the exit polls and the selection results (selection my word not his):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

He said he plans to cover this tonight.

We know what that means, wink wink. Methinks the 'margin of error' just got a whole lot bigger.

http://www.gregpalast.com/
KERRY WON OHIO
JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS
"This is the first time in four decades that a political party has systematically barred -- in this case successfully -- hundreds of thousands of Black voters from access to the voting booth. While investigating for BBC Television, we obtained three dozen of the Republican Party's confidential "caging" lists, their title for spreadsheets listing names and addresses of voters they intended to block on any pretext.
We found that every single address of the thousands on these Republican hit lists was located in Black-majority precincts. You might find that nasty and racist. It may also be a crime.
But that didn't stop the Republicans of '04. Their legally questionable mass challenge to Black voters is not some low-level dirty tricks operation of local party hacks. Emails we obtained show the lists were copied directly to the Republican National Committee's chief of research and to the director of a state campaign."

OMG this is horrible!!

damn!

and they are going to get away with it.

The boy king will get another term.

made that Homeland Security/FBI call to that precinct, can't remember the name, would probably lead to a whistleblower if that person is found and arrested! This could very well also be a major key in Ohio!

lie may well lead straight to the top. OOooooohhhh to Rove himself.
Barf.

Anyone that would speak out? We should send the Palast article to the girl from that paper in OH who broke the FBI story too - I bet she could do something with it -

That was in Warren County.... Heavily Republican county in the Republican stronghold of southwest Ohio.

The reporter that broke that story was Erica Solvig of the Cincinatti Enquirer.

think this would be the key to alot of things!

and what sort of "light" will he shed on the subject? Why didn't Olbermann just invite the two opposing "scholars" to come on and duke out their opposing theories?

and MSNBC regular. He is on Countdown a lot. Seems to be non-partisan. He'll probably have a better analysis of the scholars' work than opposing scholars would have. Plus, Keith tries to avoid shouting matches on the program.

I've only recently begun tuning in to Olbermann. I appreciate your input. You're right about the desirability of a "non-Crossfire" atmosphere on Countdown.

I think you'll get hooked on Olbermann.

He's one of the few good ones out there.

They were on the home page but now they are gone. Perhaps someone has the link and can email it over to Mr. Congressional Quarterly and also to Keith. I think he could benefit from seeing this since it shows clearly, the differences in exit polls VS actual comparing e-voting states to non-evoting states. Don't these guys do any research first?

Send Olberman and Craig the data.

Sheesh, the show is on for an hour. Our fight is NO WAY injected within the MSM enough to overtake the stories on Arrafat and Fallujah. Let's be realistic here. There are another 25 minutes to go. Let's wait it out shall we?

But muted

He didn't bail

Schuster would, but has to go with the editorial decisions made higher up. I hope Schuster continues to blog on it, though.

Maybe better that Matthews didn't do it. I don't think he would give it anywhere near the gravity or interest that Olbermann has.

But I withold judgement until I hear what he has to say.

Us people in NZ can't watch Olbermann

on voting irregularities

Kinda liked his intro piece on his blog. Please post a comprehensive report on what he says.

:thumbsup:

Crawford actually used the words "fraud" and "conspiracy."

Crawford said that there would have to be intent to defraud and that it would have to be proven. Or a squealer would have to coe forward or a whistleblower. Unlikely in his opinion.

Keith pointed out the differences between the two studies and emphasized that stats that said the odds of all the exit polls being wrong on the same night were extremely small (250 mill to 1).

Doesn't Wally O'Dell's promise count?

Did you do it?

:toast:

eom.

Replied to wrong post...duh!

it's my new wallpaper!!

thanks!

Did you do that?

I have been wondering if we should be compiling a thread full of graphics so that it is easy for bloggers etc to find em..

Plus can I use this on.. The Scoop AMERICAN COUP II page?
http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

The robot is cool but has been there for a while.

al

linking to where I have it. I move things around far too much.

Free to DU for the taking.

Two big thumbs up...right in Rove's eyes!

:yourock:

Says it'll take an admission of fraud or a "squealer" to make the SCLM run with it.

That's what pisses me off so badly: Goddamn reporters are too lazy, scared, incompetent, or bought off to do the job they're supposed to do!

:nuke:

Unbelievable.

At least Olbermann is administering some form of logic to the guy, but it doesn't seem to be ringing up on the register.

I am so sick of that Rovian meme coming out of the mouths of "news" people. They're almost all robots. Those that aren't robots are generally pussies. Those that aren't pussies are...Olbermann!

wonderful job disseminating our message.

Honestly, I feel like I have to slap my forehead in disgust whenever I catch myself saying something like "our message," since the pursuit of truth shouldn't just be a left-wing, Democratic behaviour pattern; it should be the goal of any person of integrity, regardless of party loyalty.

Hopefully Matthews can bring the low grumbles up to conversation-level with his choice to tackle the fraud issue.

Only the blogs and DU do it for them-for free.

I Love Keith Olbermann. I really do. :loveya:

n/t

Nooooooo. Please say it ain't so. :-( Keith, come baaaaack!

did you see the look on his face?

In his blog he remarked that while everyone else wanted time off after the election, he felt rather renewed (by the oddball and newsmakers stuff).

If he needs the time off he should take it of course. But sadly that means a whole week for this theft story to die a slow death.

Maybe he'll at least keep blogging on it.

like he wasn't sure Monica was serious.

:tinfoilhat: Gee, I sure hope this isn't MSNBC's way of cooling this story.

I didn't catch the show but perhaps the week off is for him to do some investigating on his own? Or get the BIG story ready?
One can only hope :D

:shrug:

I'll keep checking his blog throughout the weekend and next week.

Wait, at the end of the show, did Keith really just take off for a week? Or was that a gag? Next week would be a really, really bad week for him to not be around, right?

Was that a joke?

(not that he doesn't deserve it, though...)

if he really was going to take a week off to please have his "stand in" do even a small story on Votergate... otherwise, the blogosphere would probably go nuts and say that the BFEE made him a pair of concrete shoes. Heh!

And to enjoy his week off.

He kept saying "Johnson," but it's Steven F. Freeman. I'd have wondered if there were two UPenn profs doing exit poll analyses if he hadn't repeated (several times) the 2.5million-to-1 odds of this happening. He also mentioned Freeman's point about exit polls being used in Mexico, Georgia (ex-USSR) and elsewhere as a check against vote fraud.

I wish he had at least given the web address of the Freeman paper. And explained better the limitations of the CalTech-MIT paper. And Craig Crawford was awful. I seriously doubt that he has even read the papers he was giving his useless opinion on.

I'm VERY glad Keith is doing these nightly reports, but tonight's was downright sloppy. And I'm SICK of it all being labeled "conspiracy theory."

Still, it's better than nothing. And there is still time. I hope.

Oh--for those of you who can't watch, try to get the transcripts at msnbc.com and go to the front page of the show. The tab for transcripts is at the top. It usually takes a few days to be posted.

.. description of what happened. What did they say about the Caltech report? Was he asked about the way in which exit poll analysis has been summarily dismissed in the MSM?

check your private email... I just sent you a link! :-)

Do you think he is taking this time off because he's exhausted after the election or because he's being forced to by higher ups???

See post 56.

He just said in his blog he was energized. And he had a funny look on his face when Monica told him he won a vacation. He said "You mean you don't come to work?"

Plus he just said the other day his bosses were supportive.

If this is a lame attempt to silence him, it won't work. He knows he is the only one carrying this story.

If he takes an unexpected week off now that even he himself did not seem to be aware of, I will be highly suspicious of msnbc.

Of course, it could have just been Monica's way of being nice since everyone else has taken time off after the Selection.

Guess we'll find out Monday.

I hear there's LOTS to see there!

dead letter office at www.georgewbush.org ?

they are archiving the site now.....direct link to dead letter office:

http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp