Post Mortem: more than half of American voters are just stupid

So much for them rumors on the internets. Why were the exit polls so screwed up? Well, there are some interesting post-mortem comments over at my favorite blog "Boing Boing" sponsored by the one and only Xani J. Two comments that hit home are noted below, with a third also noted b/c it effectively articulates my bewilderment. Link

The first rings true b/c it sounds similar to the advice Euge would give me:

8:15am: Four more years of a nation led by criminals. I was making coffee with one eye on CNN when the news broke, and I called my dad, a man who's spent many years fighting for good things, sometimes at great personal cost.

"Get over it," he said, "The way you feel now is exactly how I felt when Nixon won a second term -- crushed. I just couldn't believe America was that stupid. But remember what happened to Nixon that term."

"Change comes from discontent," he said. "And right now, there's a lot of discontent."

The second rings true, being a Jew (well sort of), with children (well certainly), from a "secular"/"blue" state (THANK GOD!). I note that Kerry won Illinois by a landslide and we elected Obama to the Senate and we have a democrat as governor. Anyway here is the second excerpt:

I've been Jewish, not very observant, my whole life. I'm one of the first generations of Jews to not fear assault as they went to school or lived their lives in secular or religious ways. To not worry about slaughter. I have only met a handful of concentration camp survivors, including a teacher in college. I don't know what it is to be oppressed or insulted for my ethnic and religious heritage.
Today is the first day I am afraid in America because I am Jewish.

Today is the first day I fear for my new son, who is not, but has a Jewish father.

I'm lucky to live in Washington State, and specifically in Seattle. A haven of secular and broad-spectrum religious views in a sea of red. We went strongly, even among Republicans, to Kerry, and maybe I just won't leave this state much for the next four years.

And finally, this one speaks for itself:

"As a British citizen, I just can't understand why. Does the British media unfairly portray Bush, or are more than half of American voters just fucking stupid? I write this as an appeal to BoingBoing - please, please help me understand how this could have happened, and why, why on God's earth would so many Americans support Bush?"