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LightningFlash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 12:52 PM
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Democratic Exuberant Responder: Why this theory can be cancelled out.
This theory is a prime example of how the Karl Rove movement has changed the way we report the truth, and how members like Warren Mitofsky get away with trashing themselves in order to distort it.

Democratic "Exuberant" responder is not possible, and here's why.

It's not even scientific, it isn't math, and there's nothing mystical about it.

It is because....

1) There is no way to begin with, for exit poll "interviewers" to know how to magically seek out Kerry voters over Bush voters. What do all the Kerry voters have magic hats on? Is somebody claiming the polls are literally "psychic? Don't believe in the impossible.

2) There is clearly some sampling bias, but the facts are manipulation has been shown in several counties already. Lawyers in Ohio issued a full report on the issue which compiles over 680 pages of evidence (*See http://www.bradblog.com/bradshow , latest broadcast*) and it does not contradict available exit poll report.

What I see here is a pattern, of possibly the most obvious and last line of defense. The fact is, exit poll takers deliberately went out and oversampled Kerry voters. They *deliberately* did it, notice how this meme is being pushed in the media. Deliberately, there was not a mistake. This was all some conspiracy. So now that we know where Mitofsky really stands, and that he subscribes to conspiracy theories, let's move on. Or better yet, lets not move on.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 08:24 AM
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1. but the actual exit polls do not show
oversampling of Kerry voters, or at least to the extent of corrupting the exit poll results? I guess I'm a little confused here.
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LightningFlash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 11:43 AM
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2. Actually, you aren't confused at all.
The adjusted exit poll results matching the final count do not show an *oversampling* of deliberate Kerry voters, because there were none. If we were to fall back on the issue of oversampling, the adjusted ones show Bush voters oversampled.

The plausible explanation is there was more Kerry votes than Bush votes, period.
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