Reply #52: well...

[OnTheOtherHand]

Look, I bet there must be thousands of people who did what I did: waited for the polls to close in Ohio, went to the CNN.com exit poll page, hit "refresh" until they posted the results, did a quick calculation that showed Kerry well up, screamed "Yessssssss!" or some variation on that. And then there were tens of thousands of people who had to listen to us screaming....

I've never grasped the idea that something had to be leaked. CNN.com openly posted these results, as I guess WP/NEP did too. And of course before CNN.com openly posted the results, earlier results were being leaked all over the place.

So the idea that the mainstream media was trying to cover up the exit poll results by quickly changing web sites never made much sense to me. It wasn't just a few patriots who knew how the raw exit polls had turned out.

(EDIT: changed 'gotten' to 'grasped' to clarify the meaning)