Reply #152: Election Night 2004

[pissedoffinct]

The vast difference between the exit polling data, and the results that came out after 10 PM that night shocked everyone, including the winners.

My neighbor happens to be a really nice, bright, solid republican who thinks Bush is the worst president in history. But, he is friends with a significant republican operative in DC. Top-shelf kind of guy.

That night, the operative called my neighbor to tell him that Kerry had won. No doubt about it, Bush had lost the election.

If you were watching the various network anchors that night, you could clearly see confusion in their eyes as well. They were completely baffled as to how the results they were reporting were so different than the results they had planned on reporting based on their exit data.

The following day things got very, very quiet on the republican front. It's as if they didn't want to stir the pot. Frankly, I think many of them were stunned at the outcome and had absolutely no idea how it happened. But it did...