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Friday's Washington Post finally caught up with what we've been talking about here at VDARE.COM since the election: the National Election Pool's exit poll claim that 44% of Hispanics voted for George W. Bush is implausible. It is now being viewed skeptically by professional pollsters. [Pollsters Debate Hispanics' Presidential Voting, by Darryl Fears, November 26, 2004). I've previously noted the external evidence for this claim (here) and the internal evidence from inconsistencies in the exit polls (here). Now I can explain why the exit poll results were internally inconsistent. Of course, this won't make any difference to the Bushies. They will believe what they want to believe. But it might interest any Republicans wondering if their party really needs to be taken over the immigration cliff. The problem with the exit polls: Bush's reported shares of the national and regional Hispanic vote were inflated compared to the sum of the state-by-state numbers. [more]

Did Bush Really Get 44 Percent of the Hispanic Vote? NO [more]