News Article: Democracy in Question

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U.S. ELECTION:
Democracy in Question

Ritt Goldstein

John Zogby, president of the polling firm Zogby International, told IPS he has been calling it "the Armageddon election" for about a year. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader believes the Republican Party was able to "steal it before election day."

Facts suggest something went very wrong on Nov. 2.

http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26346

[Pirate Smile]

1. More from Zogby - (I was wondering what he was thinking about all of this)

"Among the most cited exit polls were those conducted by Mitofsky International, whose founder, Warren Mitofsky, is widely credited with having invented exit polling. Zogby, whose firm was not among those that provided network TV coverage of the Nov. 2 election, described the possibility of either incompetence or fraud causing the controversial deviation as "impossible."

According to Zogby, it would have required "wrong sampling in wrong areas throughout the country," or the purposeful manipulation of data to obtain exit poll results so significantly different from the official totals. He viewed neither as a possibility.

When asked what exactly had happened then, Zogby replied, "a problem, but I don't know where it is ... something's wrong here, though." "

Please send this to all the usual suspects - Olberman, Shuster, etc. At least most of them do give Zogby quite a bit of credibility.