Opinion: Early leaks on N.C., Indiana exit polls: a murky picture.

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If there’s one sure thing we should have learned from the year’s protracted Democratic presidential race, it’s that waaaaaaay too much stock is invested in the predictive power of the early waves of exit polls. So perhaps it’s just as well that the first reports on what these surveys show seem contradictory.

First, from the good news for Barack Obama/bad news for Hillary Clinton department. The venerable Matt Drudge blares this on his website -- ‘HILLARY’S ‘DOUBLE DREAM’ DASHED: EXITS SHOW EASY OBAMA WIN IN NC.’

But then there’s this report, on Time magazine’s The Page website -- ‘Fox: Was Rev. Wright ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ important? Indiana and North Carolina: 48% Yes.’

That’s a high number of voters with Obama’s former pastor on their mind, which his camp can’t feel good about.

-- Don Frederick