{"id":2923,"date":"2004-11-02T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2923.html"},"modified":"2004-11-02T15:19:32","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T20:19:32","slug":"exit-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/exit-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first batch of exit polls is available. Remember, this is like looking at the score of a football game at halftime, only slightly less<\/i> reliable.<\/p>\n

Arizona<\/b> — Bush 55, Kerry 45
\nColorado<\/b> — Bush 51, Kerry 48
\nLouisiana<\/b> — Bush 57, Kerry 42
\nPennsylvania<\/b> — Kerry 60, Bush 40
\nOhio<\/b> — Kerry 52, Bush 48
\nFlorida<\/b> — Kerry 51, Bush 48
\nMichigan<\/b> — Kerry 51, Bush 47
\nNew Mexico<\/b> — Kerry 50, Bush 48
\nMinnesota<\/b> — Kerry 58, Bush 40
\nWisconsin<\/b> — Kerry 52, Bush 43
\nIowa<\/b> — Kerry 49, Bush 49
\nNew Hampshire<\/b> — Kerry 57, Bush 41<\/p>\n

What does this tell us? Not as much as we’d like. Many of the early exit polls from 2000 showed Bush up, but things changed by the end of the day.<\/p>\n

Consider this a morale booster, but don’t even think<\/i> about letting up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first batch of exit polls is available. Remember, this is like looking at the score of a football game at halftime, only slightly less reliable. Arizona — Bush 55, Kerry 45 Colorado — Bush 51, Kerry 48 Louisiana — Bush 57, Kerry 42 Pennsylvania — Kerry 60, Bush 40 Ohio — Kerry 52, Bush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}