Praise be, y'all.

Wired has an interesting take on the whole exit poll issue. Bloggers are to blame, says the magazine, because they were able to spread misleading exit poll figures very early in the race, causing confusion among people who took the figures as gospel. That doesn't really answer the question about why they were so very wrong in the first place, though, and the evoting issue still seems worth investigating. Not that Kerry is going to bother at this point.

It does raise another issue, though, concerning the way that elections are managed in an age where grass roots communications mechanisms make information more viral. It's impossible to stop the spread of information that could affect the ultimate outcome of an election, should people in the west decide to change their votes based on what they've heard is happening out east. It used to be something of a problem with phones, and I seem to recall Canada banning TV broadcasts of initial election results out east while people were still at the polls on the west coast. The US networks didn't seem to care about that at all this week. It's been increasingly difficult to manage that sort of thing, and now, with blogs and the Internet to prevalent, it's all a moot point.