The other negative, which will receive attention, to come from this election was the off-base exit polls. There is a lot of speculation as to why they were off, especially since they historically have been accurate enough to call elections by. Already the conspiracy theorists blame the exit polls' links to the main-stream-media. I've seen other conspiracies today that blame CIA planes flying over the U.S. electronically altering the votes as they occurred.
Without getting into a serious rant, the votes were what they were. No amount of polling, projections, analysis, or speculation changes reality. Too many people place too much faith in statistics and not enough in reality. I recommend reading How to Lie with Statistics by by Darrell Huff and Irving Geis to get a handle on how statistics are not always what they seem. The exit poll fiasco demonstrates there are too many people with nothing better to do than analyze the crap out of stuff like polls, making much out of nothing. They freaked when the polls were wrong. Polls are not perfect. I don't need to tell anybody intelligent that.
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