This is SICKENING .... no, make that INFURIATING.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/04/networks-ap-cancel-exit-polls-in-19-states/
Breaking from two decades of tradition, this year’s election exit poll is set to include surveys of voters in 31 states, not all 50 as it has for the past five presidential elections, according to multiple people involved in the planning.
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The decision by the National Election Pool — a joint venture of the major television networks and The Associated Press — is sure to cause some pain to election watchers across the country. (For a full list of the states that won’t have exit polls scroll to the bottom of this post.)
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Here is a list of the states that will be excluded from coverage: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Comparing this list with the election map, reveals how carefully *MEGA-BULLSHIT - THIS IS BLATANT ELECTION TAMPERING* the exit poll planners allocated resources. All 19 of the states with no exit polls are classified as either “solid Obama” or “solid Romney,” and there is only one “toss-up” gubernatorial or U.S. Senate race not on the list: the competitive North Dakota match-up of Heidi Heitkamp and Rick Berg.
LINK TO IMAGE - (wapo is doing the check-referrer bullcrap) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/election-map-2012/embed-map/#
What a load of BIASED CRAP and attempted election rigging by these pollsters AND THE WASHINGTON POST.
Of the 19 states (sic. - hey, idjits Wash D.C. is NOT a state) ... 14 of them are SOLID ROMNEY STATES - with VERY LARGE ELECTORAL VOTE TOTALS. The other 5 AREAS - D.C., Deleware, Hawaii, Delaware, and Rhode Island - solid big-red-O states - have MINISCULE TOTALS.
Folks - THIS IS BLATANTLY ILLEGAL under Federal Election Laws - and obviously a LAST DESPERATE attempt to improperly influence the election outcome.
SHAME ON YOU, WASHINGTON POST for attempting to present this as a 'balanced effort'. It sure as hell is not.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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