Venezuela’s Opposition Resorts to Phony Exit Polls

[papau]

Seems exit poll was not scientific-just a PR job to justify more CIA games


<snip>According to Súmate, there are forty-five thousand of these volunteers all over the country-at least one at every single voting station, and at those voting stations deemed more important, there are as many as twenty.

Altamira, apparently, is one such location. Twenty conscripts stand around outside the voting center, clipboard in hand waiting for unsuspecting citizens to emerge, fresh from having voted. "Good afternoon," they purr, "would you mind telling us if you voted 'Yes' or 'No'?" and "Yes, yes, yes," is the most common response.

"How many 'No' votes have you received?" I asked, playing the naïve reporter.

"Let's see," she offered, tapping her tennis shoes, "there are no 'Nos' on this page, and one on this page. I have one 'No'."

"Just one?" I persisted.

"Well, I don't know about the others, but I have just one," she answered, then, spotting some emerging voters in the distance, she scampered of to collect more "Yeses." <snip>

<snip>
In that case, perhaps the best that they can hope for is to cast some doubt on the process; to exaggerate some irregularities, to create others. That way, they can refer in passing to problems with the referendum results for the rest of Chávez' tenure as President, never going into any detail, but perpetuating the international stereotype that Chávez has authoritarian tendencies. And releasing exit polls that directly contradict the official results may be the best way of accomplishing this.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1248

[stickdog]

1. They are damned if they do or don't on this one.

And I'm laughing my head off.

[papau]

2. CIA has a talking head in DC saying he doubts that problems are

over because some folks will not accept results.

smile ......


And that was on CBC - :-)

For US Media the instructions were sent out today and tonight which say that we will wait a while to determine on our own if the Fraud accusations have any validity. Indeed a "State Dept spokesperson" says we do not yet have an opinion on the validity of the election (here a cute item is that some US Media is identifying the spokesperson by name - and fellow is low level).

Meanwhile CIA and right wing think tanks in DC are putting out the word that they have talking heads to go on TV and express the need for folks to not accept the results right away - or to at least accept the idea that others may not accept the results.

And the logic...???? .... why it is obvious - the opposition folks were told by their unscientific exit polling that they had 60% of the vote - and those folks appeared very confident - and even "western reporters" that had seen the opposition were impressed with their confidence that they had won - and because that confidence was so genuine - those western reporters are holding up on agreeing that the mean leftest has won the election.

In 12 hours who knows what the spin will be - I really can not keep up. But I am impressed with the CIA desire to continue to undermine a democracy that we do not like for one reason only - namely because our richer citizens do not like it.

I thought this garbage had ended.

:-(