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I agree with most of the points in this article. There's one point that has been missed by everyone, and to me it's the real reason Bush won Ohio and Florida. Around 1 in the afternoon of election day, Rush Limbaugh started going nuts aput how Bush was losing. He then began spewing, hour after hour, about how people in Ohio and Florida, especially Ohio, needed to get to the polls. This drumbeat continued with Sean Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy, all afternoon into the evening. They were specifically yelling about Ohio.
I noticed this in my state (Maryland) too. I was working the precinct for Kerry and I noticed that around 1 in the afternoon there was a big rush of people wearing Bush buttons and with Bush bumper stickers. That's why I tuned in to Limbaugh to see what was going on.
In my opinion, Karl Rove was feeding the actual raw exit polls to Limbaugh, Hannity and Liddy. I thought there was some agreement that exit polls weren't to be spouted off on the air until the polls close. Either that agreement needs to be enforced or there needs to be equity, we need to make sure that we have equality on the air to get our voters out.
