> I haven't > looked at it personally, but its my understanding that the final exit > poll results were reasonably consistent with the actual results. Which > ironically is what they were designed to do rather than as some kind of > real time forecasting tool :-) Not really. Everything that I've seen suggests that the exit polls were very accurate in most states, but biased consistently by 5-6% towards kerry in states that have electronic voting. (That is bush got more votes counted for him than the exit polls would suggest) If it was truly a matter of exit poll innacurracy, the bias would be seen on both sides. Matt _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list