Exit Poll investigation uncovers shocking tautology!

"Exit polls overstated John Kerry's share of the vote on November 2, both nationally and in many states, because more Kerry supporters participated in the survey than Bush voters, according to an internal review of the exit-polling process released Wednesday."

Wow. Case closed. Good show, pollsters!

The Brad Blog provides a thorough analysis of the Exit Poll report, climaxing in the best-justified assessment made so far:

Bush voters don't like talking to younger people. Or, they don't like talking to older people. Whereas Kerry voters, not that there were more of them, will talk to anybody. Or they're making all this bullshit up outta whole cloth.

America's Ambivalence

According to this CNN/USA-Today/Gallup poll, Americans are split over whether the war in Iraq was a mistake. In an interesting twist, we are in a four-way split over what to do about it:

Fifty-two percent of respondents said they thought it was a mistake to send U.S. troops to Iraq versus 47 percent with the opposite view. One percent said they had no opinion.

...In this year's survey, Americans were nearly evenly divided about whether and how the United States should change troop strength in Iraq: Twenty-four percent said more troops should be sent, 26 percent said troop strength should not be changed, 21 percent said some troops should be withdrawn and 25 percent said all troops should be withdrawn.

Damn. So, if you're the President who caused this big mess, what can you do to fix things up? Well, by gosh, you do the same thing that they do in every B movie once the plot has become incomprehensible: you throw the biggest fucking party Washington DC has ever seen.