Exit Polls Favor Democrats?

The Republican Party is warning their GOP base not to panic when the exit polls begin to hit the Internet, their television screens and begin to scream from radios.  In an election that already appears to favor the Democratic Party, the GOP seems to want to make certain they don't lose any votes to discouraged voters that hear the exit polling.

Certainly the exit polling in 2004 was an absolute disaster.

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A warning on GOP.Com screams at the base to 'Beware of Exit Polls' and claim that "Exit polls traditionally have a Democratic bias.   These are just a few of the bullet points online:

--Election Experts Believe Exit Polls Give An Edge And Sway Towards Democrat Candidates.

--National Exit Polls Will Skew In Favor Of Democrats This Year, Due To Large Numbers Of Uncontested Democrat Seats In The House Of Representatives.

--Early Exit Polling Returns In 2004 Were Widely Inaccurate, Declaring Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) To Be The Next President Of The United States And Republicans Barely Holding A One Seat Majority In The U.S. Senate.

--In The 2002 Midterm Elections, Exit Polling Produced Unusable Data.

--In 2000, Exit Polling Malfunctioned And Incorrectly Projecting Vice President Al Gore As The Winner Of The Crucial Battleground State Of Florida.

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The report adds:

Exit Polling Always Tends To "Give An Edge To Democratic Candidates." President of Mitofsky International, Warren Mitofsky: "Mitofsky said exit polls have always tended to give an edge to Democratic candidates ..."

(John Cook, "Early Exit Polls Overstated Kerry Results, Media Group Says," Chicago Tribune, 1/20/05)

"[Mitofsky] Said That For Reasons That Remain Unclear, Democratic Voters Are More Likely Than Republicans To Agree To Interview Requests From Pollsters."

(John Cook, "Early Exit Polls Overstated Kerry Results, Media Group Says," Chicago Tribune, 1/20/05)

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Democrats need just fifteen seats to recapture the US House of Representatives and just six seats to re-capture the US Senate.