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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 09:49 AM Original message |
Mythbusters: 2004 Exit Polls and the myth that Kerry was up |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Raw Exit Polls Had Dukakis Beating Bush Pere In 88 |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
44. But |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:17 PM Response to Reply #44 |
50. familiar nonsense |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. The raw numbers didn't show that |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:47 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. you're ignoring every other poll |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. I was always amazed by those who used exit polling numbers as evidence of fraud in OH. |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 09:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. That statement is for all polling |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Well, ok. I agree sorta, and sorta disagree. |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:16 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Well mixed bag here |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. That , LIHOP, And MIHOP Are The Most Divisive Issues On DU |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. Exit polling used to be accurate in this country and still is for the rest if the world. |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. But the polling company is not owned by the media |
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Frumious B (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
6. Thanks for this. I'm not convinced by the massive "vote flipping" theorists myself. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
10. Bullfuckingshit. |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Thank you!! Finally a intellegent post. |
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demwing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:26 AM Response to Reply #11 |
25. Fucking Idoits? |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #25 |
60. FU...I'm sure you've NEVER made a fucking typo. |
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demwing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 12:44 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. I make them all the damn time, lol |
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beachmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:28 AM Response to Reply #11 |
27. Oh, yeah? Provide the evidence. Not statistical data, but precisely |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. WRONG again! |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. See Post Nine |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. What did the exit polls in Ohio indicate |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:35 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. That isn't an election exit poll problem |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 10:40 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. The point you made in the OP has everything to do with this |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. exits aren't supposed to poll people who didn't vote |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:22 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. No, that wouldn't make sense. |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. no argument there, just "the exit polls would have been right" part |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. No one is arguing that point |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. You must understand that |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:24 PM Response to Reply #34 |
52. no, we don't "understand" that at all |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #10 |
38. Really? Having lived overseas for decades and following local elections |
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yodermon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:49 PM Response to Reply #38 |
55. Ukraine 2005 as mentioned downthread. n/t |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:52 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. how were they used to "prove" vote fraud? |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
39. Dude, exit polls, like every other type of poll, has a MOE. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
17. IF I had not been watching election 2004 live for hours into the night I might believe you. |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
35. I watched it too |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
18. Exit polling caused a silent revolution in the Ukraine in 2004......... |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:19 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. at least that's what our State Department wants you to think |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Fact is a new election in the Ukraine after that silent revolution reversed the original election. |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:59 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. are you suggesting Chavez stole the election, with Jimmy Carter's complicity? |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:07 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Don't know what you are talking about. Chavez, Jimmy Carter? |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:16 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. "in every country where democratic elections are held"; except Venezuela, and everywhere else? |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:37 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. I am talking about the Ukraine in 2004. You are responding with Chavez and Carter.... |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. so Freedom House exit polls in the Ukraine = good, the same exit polls in other countries = ? |
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suston96 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. I am not talking about Chavez and Carter.....Stuff that because I am not interested.... |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. did you catch the paragraph about auditing results? no thoughts? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
19. I refuse to talk to exit pollsters |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
21. The exit poll were at the state level not the national level - Why not use the reasons given by the |
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beachmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
24. My suggestion is that even IF it is leaked out, view it as a random bunch of numbers |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
30. glad to see this clarified... |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
37. The raw numbers should be ignored. However, demographic numbers are pretty spot on. |
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JJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
40. As an Ohioan |
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marlakay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:16 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Saw a guy on the news last night showed how in 5 min |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
42. You and your fancy mathematical statistics can go to hell. |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
46. I knew this was a mistake on your part |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
47. Does anyone know if exit polls this year will reflect early voting results as well? |
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maseman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 01:51 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Yes they are |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-02-08 07:20 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I don't get the premise of your OP |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 03:47 AM Response to Reply #51 |
57. here's the post in question |
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OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 09:15 AM Response to Reply #57 |
58. yeah, the "7 points" is just mysterious |
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foo_bar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-03-08 10:16 AM Response to Reply #58 |
59. at least Eliza asks questions |
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