Were The Exit Polls A Malicious BlogLeak?

From the American Specator’s “Prowler”:

According to at least three sources, one inside the Kerry campaign, and two outside of it, but with ties to senior Kerry advisers, some of the “early polling numbers” were in fact direct reports from Kerry campaign or Democratic Party operatives on the ground in such critical states as Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to a Washington lobbyist with knowledge of the numbers, the numbers were packaged together so as to appear to be exit poll results. They were then scrubbed through several sources to land in the lap of sympathetic bloggers who these operatives believed would put the numbers up with little question.

Some of the numbers claimed to be exit polling data that showed Kerry with a 8-1 voter ratio. As soon as the numbers hit the Internet, panic set in.

From VodkaPundit, posted the morning of election day, before any of the “exit numbers” were publicized:

Who’ll be the first to leak exit polling numbers from, say, Ohio or Pennsylvania?

More interestingly, who’ll be spun with phony exit polling intended to suppress or boost the vote in one state or another?

Advantage… me!