U Turn and Undercover Brother screenwriter John Ridley has weighed in against exit polls in a Huffington Post piece, saying, “The conclusions drawn from these excavations usually reflect the
media’s own bias” and “with each round of voting the media echo chamber tends to
magnify the disparities of each subset. Again and again we are told the
black vote has abandoned the Clintons, older white women don’t connect
with Obama. This repetition breeds resentment; how dare ‘those people’
not support my candidate? In short order our own opinions about those
who abandon and those who refuse to connect calcify into animosity,
making it hard for us to see the ‘other’ candidate as potentially ‘our’
candidate.” For the full piece, click here.