Reply #14: PBS Frontline did a special on Karl Rove [View All]

Here's a snip, listen folks, please support PBS, they're not perfect, I know but where else
can you actually hear the truth now.

The program begins on Election Day 2004. As the president emerged from the Crawford, Texas, fire station after voting, the press corps was surprised by what they saw. "The people around him were very concerned that they had lost," Washington Post reporter 1. Mike Allen tells FRONTLINE, "and you see the aides, including the president's daughters … looking like they were at a funeral."
And as the day went on, early exit polls delivered to Karl Rove on Air Force One seemed to show a substantial victory for Sen. John Kerry.
"The air went out of the airplane," said Bush chief media strategist Mark McKinnon. "The air just got sucked out."
But Rove, who had spent years courting what he called the Republican conservative base, immediately crunched the numbers to see if all the handholding and political deal making with that group would yield the turnout he expected. Before long Rove knew the exit polls were wrong.

Yes, Karl Rove knew they were wrong, he knew that the "largely invisible" grassroots movement
in Ohio would save Bush. I heard a speech where he mentions these largely invisible voters.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/view/