The Voting Problem Moves Mainstream

[raymor]

So do you guys spout all this mindlessly without
even reading the election results, or do you know
better and are hoping that your readers will
mindlessly believe your drivel without even looking
at the vote tallies?

1) The exit polls match the vote tallies almost perfectly.
In the exit poll, most women voted for Kerry
and most men for Bush, in nearly the same %
as in the ending vote tally. The pollsters polled
60%-65% women, and so counted more Kerry
votes in their poll. CNN, which leans more left
than right and can't be claimed to be part of the
"right wing conspiracy" apologized within hours
for airing a poll so heavily biased toward women
without correcting it and informing their viewers.


2) Early exit polls are ALWAYS shown with a margin
of error of a few percent. Had you been watching
the election and looked at the screen or listened
to the talking heads you would have seen right
there that any Kerry lead was always WELL within the margin of error.
Polling 1500 voters just doesn't give a very accurate
picture of how 100,000 other voters will vote.
Do you not understand that the 1% difference
is only 8 votes for Bush instead of Kerry in a
poll of 1,500? Had the pollster walked up to a
different family rather than that last one he chose
he Kerry might lose 4 votes and bush pick up 4
votes. The networks would report those 4 votes
one way or the other as a .5% swing.