The polls in North Carolina opened at 6:30 this morning.  My wife and I arrived at 6:15.  The line was relatively long when we got there and much longer when we left.  I cast the 27th vote in my precinct.

When I walked out, a black woman was standing outside wearing a yellow shirt and holding a clipboard.  We made eye contacted and I politely smiled.  She didn’t say anything to me.  Another couple of people walked out, and she didn’t say anything to them either.  But when a man who appeared to have mixed ancestry walked out, she introduced herself as someone gathering information for the national news media and wanted to ask him a few questions.  He declined.

A few minutes later my wife walked out.  She too was asked to take the exit poll, as was another young gentleman who appeared to be of mixed decent.

Was this exit poll worker only asking people who she perceived were more likely to vote Democrat?  As a white southern male, I don’t exactly fit the profile of a likely Obama voter.

Obviously I have no way to know for sure, but I wonder.   Having never been exit polled or even noticing a pollster on election day before, I was paying very close attention.  The indication was clear.  As I waited a few minutes outside for my wife to finish her ballot, the exit poll worker had ample time to ask about my vote.  Yet she chose not to.

Don’t trust the exit polls, no matter what they say this evening.  And please, please get out and vote.

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UPDATE: I’ve heard from some that the exit pollers may ask every nth person to get their “random” sample, and that may account for the “cherry-picking” of voters by this polster.  That may be true, but based on this experience I doubt it.  She ignored me and a couple other people, and then asked three people in succession.