What is "excusive"? Well, the same thing is "exclusive" that is true of any "projection" of electon results not based on actual votes (which includes ALL present "projections" by "news" orgainizations).
Yes, this headline is meant to RIDICULUE "projections" of election results based on "exit polls" (dirty little secret: polls going into the election, and expectation of the result also go into a QUICK projection).
COULD "networkds" "call" an electon like the primary in West Virninia relatviely early (like by noon, or earlier). Sure they could. We KNOW who is going to win West Virginia (although the exact MARGIN matters some, and the exit polls have been notoriously BAD on that this election). Obama has conceded the state in advance.
As this blog has told you, polls are evil things. That includes exit polls. I would favor a Constitutional Amendment to abolish them. Remember, the ONLY thing stopping a day long analysis of exit polls,a nd who is WINNING (or has "won") is VOLUNTARY restraint on the part of "news" organizations. WHY does this "voluntary" restraint exist? It exist becaue everyone recognizes the EVIL of turning election day into a battle of polls. BUT, we are truning entire ELECTIONS into a battle of polls--which she to constitute an ever increasing part of the "news" coverage. WE can stop that insanity without a Constitutional Amendment. We can simply LIE to pollsters, or refuse to cooperate.
Think how nice it would be not to have any idea whether Barck Obama or John McCain is ahead in, for example, California going into election day. Think of having to wait for actual VOTES to know who is "winning". Think of how "news" organizations will be totally exposed for the frauds they are if they don't have POLLS to talk aoubt (that alone should convince you not to cooperate with pollsters). There is nothing that would be better for elections in this country, and for political discourse, than to ELIMINATE POLLS, including exit polls. And the PEOPLE have it in their power to do that.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE: ELIMINATE POLLS. The non-news media has no RIGHT to know what you THINK.
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