Reply #37: Here is what it said

[Mistwell]

Exit pollsters are ALSO 100% away. Exit polls must also obey the 100 ft. rule, as they are conducted by a private company, not a publically approved poll. So, in at least this particular case, the exit pollster was stationed right next to MoveOn.Org. I can certainly see that, for that particular polling station, Republicans would almost certainly be scared off from taking the exit poll.

"...a contingent of folks from MoveOn.Org was stationed right next to her at the 100-ft line. This made her appear from a distance as being connected with them, and being forced to stand 100 ft from the polls, people were able to easily turn aside to avoid her and MoveOn".

The "scaring off white male voters" was an unrelated incident to the one detailed above. That person "...had perhaps the most advantageous placement of any of my four students (she was indoors at the only entrance/exit and had full cooperation from the staff on-site)." That claim at least implied racism on some level from the white male voters, and had nothing to do with MoveOn.org, but just the appearance of the exit pollster (african-american) and her approach (which apparently got better the longer she had practice approaching voters and refined her sales pitch).

It is not at all hard for me to believe that the attitudes of some Republicans (perhaps subconsciously for some) would cause them to not want to speak with a black female exit pollster.