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Mitofsky International also specializes in legal proceedings. Its cases included the change of venue portion of the Amadou Diallo shooting by four New York City police; the challenge in the U.S. Senate to seating Diane Fienstein after her victory over Michael Huffington; the South Carolina video poker law suit; the First Amendment law suits by the news media challenging the anti-exit poll statutes of the states of Washington, Florida and Georgia; the change of venue portion of the Orange County, California, law suit agains Merrill Lynch; a trade mark law suit concerning Billy Banks’ Tae-Bo exercise video; an arbitration proceeding among 17 oil companies that banned together with DOJ approval to avoid takeover by Libya’s Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi; the authenticity of polling conducted for Oregon’s assisted suicide vote;

MI election research clients in the United States have included ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Time; international clients include Televisa and the National Chamber for Radio and Television Broadcasting (Mexico), RAI (Italy), ZDF (Germany), Fuji (Japan), NTV and RTR (Russia) and Austrian and Finnish television.

MI conducted the only exit polls for the Russian presidential elections in 1996 and 2000. It also polled for the 1993 and 1999 Duma election. In 1994, MI conducted the only exit poll and quick count for the Mexican presidential election reported by the country's broadcast industry. Mitofsky received public commendation by President Carlos Salinas for his contribution to the election's credibility. MI and its Mexican partner, Consulta, have conducted exit polls for most governor elections between 1997-99 for Televisa, Mexico’s largest television network. Consulta/Mitofsky also covered the first PRI national presidential primary in 1999. MI started the only public opinion poll in Sri Lanka.

MI conducted exit polls for the 1994 mid-term U.S. elections for leading national newspapers. Since 1996, Mitofsky has done the electoral projections and analysis for president, governor and congress for CBS and CNN.

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Mitofsky came to CBS News in 1967 from the Census Bureau where he designed many surveys during the early days of the poverty program and for presidential commissions including those investigating the selective service system and the Watts riots. He also designed many other demographic surveys. Along with Joseph Waksberg, he developed a highly efficient random digit dialing telephone sampling method, which has been widely adopted.

Wonders never cease. Dan Rather wanted so bad for Bush to loose, I guess he had a direct line to the exit polls which is why they practicly had to drag Rather off the set. He just couldnt accept the fact that Bush won. It was a kodak moment, too bad I missed it.

I sure hope this media bias is adressed soon. We can't let it be swept under the rug. NO MORE imbeds in the military either. Keep them out of war zones. If they want to risk their lives and hang out with the enemy, then they should know that they risk being fired on. No soldier should die just because a journalist is in the way, a jornalist who is just lying, and making the soldier look bad to boot.