CNN Inexplicably Changed Exit Polls

More from The Squanderer:

"Q: I checked the exit polls on CNN's web site. They are right in line with the election results, they do not show Kerry ahead in states that Bush won. So what exit polls are you talking about?

A: Indeed, the exit polls were changed after the fact. In the evening on November 2, after the polls closed, the exit polls in Ohio and Florida (the ones I was checking personally) showed Kerry ahead. Some time in the middle of the night, the exit poll figures were altered to match the subsequently reported actual tally, with no explanation, or even an indication that a change had been made. The numbers appear to have simply been changed using some formula to bring their polls in line with 'reality.' I emailed CNN for an explanation, but have received no response so far. It would seem to me to have been much more honest to leave the exit polls as they were and say 'look, sometimes exit polls can be wrong,' rather than alter them after the fact to make them appear as if they were right all along. Luckily, there is still a web site where you can see what the exit polls were saying that day. You can find it HERE. I have comfirmed with someone at that site that the numbers presented at the top of that article were the final exit poll numbers reported, at '6-ish' Eastern time. "