You would think that, given the track record, the Illiberal Idiotopiarians in the press would finally tire of the old let’s-hype-the-exit-polls and let’s-call-the-election-before-the-votes-are-in shticks.

You’d also be wrong (link via LC & IB Bill Quick):

April 10 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi overtook former European Commission President Romano Prodi in Italian elections and now leads in voting for both houses of parliament, projected results showed. The final outcome is too close to call.

Berlusconi had a narrow advantage of 0.3 percentage point in voting for the Chamber of Deputies that would give him 340 seats in the 630-seat house, projections based on a partial count of votes showed. Berlusconi’s coalition also held a narrow majority in the Senate.

The media are every bit as accurate as the Daily Kotz when it comes to predicting election results. Gore in ‘00, Kerry in ‘04, Howard thrown out of Oz and whatisface in Canada not even getting a leg inside. We were a bit worried about Berlusconi’s future initially, but that all evaporated when the airheaded know-nothings in the media started proclaiming that the Socialist Tranzi Fuckweasel Prodi was going to sweep the Italian elections. When that happened, we knew that our man Silvio had it made.

Initial exit polls showed Prodi winning the Chamber and a 20-seat majority in the Senate

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Ah, those infallible exit polls.

We wonder how you say “we wuz robbed” in Italian?

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