11.02.2004

Exit Pollapalooza

Update-2:55pm - Drudge has the first exit polls out, showing good results for Senator Kerry.

AZ CO LA MI WI PA OH FL MI NM MN WI IA NH
Kerry: 4548425152605251515058524957
Bush: 5551574848404848474840434941

So far so good for Kerry, but the fat lady hasn't even entered the building.

The Amish (and other Lancaster County residents) are voting heavily for Bush, which is expected, but are voting early and in massive numbers as well.

Meanwhile, bad news for the networks in Ohio: they've been banned from exit-polling within 100 feet of a voting location. Like all good Americans, they sued today. Good news, however, for Bush: it's raining steadily in Ohio and a few other states, which generally works in an incumbant's favor and, I would guess, in a Republican's favor, since urbanites are more likely to vote Kerry and are less likely to be have cars or be able to park them at their polling place.

Early this morning, poll monitors found 2,000 pre-planted ballots before polls opened in downtown Philadelphia, according to Drudge.