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To: Alter Kaker

Thanks for supporting my point. Now that we agree on the fact that exit polling was wrong, can we address the issue that you keep avoiding? Namely, that the methodology of the polls you cling to (as opposed to others that don’t show Barry way ahead) might be flawed by oversampling dummies, African-American, urban dwellers and youngsters? That was a rhetorical question because after several vacuous posts by you I don’t expect an answer.


197 posted on 10/24/2008 11:14:57 PM PDT by Thickman (Term limits are the answer.)
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To: Thickman
The difference is that in '04, the exit polling consisted of one single consortium effort, using a single methodology.

If you're criticizing 2008's telephone polls, then you're going to be criticizing different methodologies by several dozen different independent organizations. For the most part, those methodologies have been accurate in the past -- and were in 2004. Now there are instances where the methodologies are clearly unusual -- Zogby's Internet Polling being the obvious one -- but for the most part the sample methods have been consistent election to election. And the results too.

That was a rhetorical question because after several vacuous posts by you I don’t expect an answer.

I don't know what your problem is but you have one hell of an attitude.

200 posted on 10/24/2008 11:22:41 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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