HoodaThunk?

Not exactly a newsflash. The exit polls were horribly, horribly wrong. They were skewed wildly, whether through incompetence or design in immaterial. The fact is that those polls did not – and do not – reflect accurate conclusions about the electorate. The media and the blogosphere both got caught out by the inaccuracy of the polls and everyone has come to the proper conclusion that the conclusions of the polls are utter bullshit.

So why am I now hearing those same polls being touted as proof that the “religious right” of “Evangelicals” were the driving force of the President’s win and, therefore, it signals a mandate for… well, religious-based legislation? It’s crap, boys & girls. The polls were tainted so… You. Shouldn’t. Trust. Them. At all. Not even a teensy.

Update: Now here’s an example of exactly what I’m talking about. The same inaccurate, wildly fantisizing polls that are being denounced as way off base in telling who was going to win the election are being used to push forth the concept that the people who voted for Bush are “values voters” scared to death of gay marriage and abortion.

Hogwash. Tripe. Bull. Shit.

Absolutely no one I know cites that as the reason we voted for Bush. The reasons cited are the firm conviction that President Bush will pursue the war on terror better than Kerry and a complete lack of faith in nearly anything Kerry said. He was not credible and Bush is. Disagree with that statement all you like but those are the reasons the people I know voted for the President. The fact that the religious are happy about the result of the election is a result, not the cause.