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Three cheers for democracy in action. But should the future of free elections rest on the continuing popularity of big hair? The one heartwarming lesson from the Bush-Gore debacle is supposed to be that every vote counts. The less comforting lesson is that a lot of votes don't...
Down in Austin, Rove and polling analyst Matthew Dowd were in their adjacent offices, glued to their computers and telephones. "They were like mad scientists with those calculators," says media strategist Mark McKinnon. "They were punching them so hard and so fast, it sounded like a machine gun." At various...
In part, we in the media were made to look stupid by the same mechanisms we use to make ourselves seem smarter than we are. By midafternoon on Election Day, journalists receive exit-poll data, diced into a zillion demographic categories on whom people voted for and why. Networks use...
VOTER NEWS SERVICE Four years' prep time for one day of exit polling, and they can't get Florida right?
After all the debates, the millions spent on commercials, the flash polling, the pretending to care about Social Security--it came down to my grandmothers. It has been 15 years since either side of my family has included them in a discussion of where to eat dinner, and the leader...