Reply #45: Did you read the New York Times magazine story

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that followed the Ohio director of the 527 group ACT on election day?

He got exit poll updates every hour or so.

The first batch showed Kerry up 4 % but each batch that followed was less favorable to Kerry until by the times the polls closed, he was hopeful but no longer confident.

According to this article, and this guy was the head of the Ohio Clark campaign before joining on with America Coming Together, there were not exit polls in Ohio showing Kerry way ahead unless you use the first batch that came out around noon which obviously would not be as accurate since it only measured morning voters.

I don't know which exit polls people are referring to when they say Kerry was up big.

If it's the first of four batches that measured morning voters so what? If it's the final batch of exit polls that were released atround poll closing, then according to this article at least, Kerry was no longer ahead.