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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-09-08 09:31 PM
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Has Professor Freeman made any comments
about M$Ms about face re exit polls. He presented one of the best papers about the 2004 Exit Poll scandal.

Has anyone at M$M said a word about why they accept exit polls now but rejected them when strange things happened in Ohio in 2004?

Why do we allow these criminals and their hacks to 'get away' with this madness?
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-09-08 09:39 PM
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1. Oh, Hell...........
I've been asking myself that question since the 2000 election.....still haven't got an answer.
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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-09-08 09:40 PM
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2. K&R! Freeman and others have pointed out that the pollsters now
Edited on Sat Feb-09-08 09:41 PM by Stevepol
are starting to re-calibrate the polls from the very beginning as they notice differences between the probably phony machine read-outs and the raw data coming in for the exit polls.

In 04 and 06 I think they didn't start re-calibrating until later on, when the differences between the polls and the "results" became obvious and so might possibly prove disconcerting. This was the basis of Freeman's book and the work of Baimon at www.electiondefensealliance.org

In other words, now the exit polls will be almost entirely worthless as a way to verify the accuracy of the machine count unless the raw data is released and the chances of that happening are probably not high.

Stay tuned.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-09-08 10:01 PM
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3. Very good news
Thanks :hi:

I read both the original article and his update but I haven't read the book yet. What I do know is that he did not buy the difference between the exit polls and the final result on Ohio. Indeed he said the difference was mathematically impossible.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-10-08 01:21 AM
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4. There is a new election defense alliance blog
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