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...unifying Iraq comes from Americans and not the country's elected leaders. A U.S. effort to put Iraq back together would involve endless micromanagement of Iraqi affairs and an open-ended presence of large numbers of U.S. troops. Breaking up Iraq, on the other hand, could provide an exit strategy for U.S. troops, mitigate the worst effects of civil war and give all Iraqis a greater stake in shaping their future. Few Americans imagined that 3 1/2 years after "liberating" Iraq, the U.S. would be presiding over the country's demise. But in a war in which there have never...
...Election Day in 2004, the member networks and subscribing news organizations received the exit poll data as it came in during the early afternoon. So preliminary is this first wave of data that pollsters do not consider it conclusive; to avoid making inaccurate predictions, the networks are careful to wait until the second wave of data that comes...
...early exit poll data found its way online. Leaks of the early exit poll data were nothing new, but bloggers were. The bloggers likely received the exit poll data from sources at the networks and NEP-subscribing news organizations, says Joe Lenski, co-founder of Edison Media Research and the overseer of exit polling...
...Slate officially published the data as it received it, arguing that readers "should know as much about the unfolding election as the anchors and other journalists." Granted, Slate also cautioned that the early exit poll data was not conclusive. Yet that disclaimer did not stop bloggers from "chattering" about the early numbers, says Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. Because of the online leak, "it became widely believed from about 3 p.m. to 7 p.m that John Kerry was ahead," Kohut says. "This online leak caused the stock markets to go down and sent Washington in the wrong...
...quarantine, it is hoped, will prevent the mistakes of 2004. Though the bloggers never actually called the election for John Kerry, their eager discussions and analysis of early poll data did influence Washington journalists and pundits, according to Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll. "Whenever early exit polls leak out, they can wreak havoc on Washington's mind-set," says Newport...