Reply #165: This whole business of "not intended for the purpose" gets pretty silly. [View All]

[seaclyr]

Whether something is intended for a purpose or not misses the point. The question is more whether something is useful. Can a butter knife loosen or tighten a screw in a pinch - of course it can, even though it's not intended for that purpose. Do the exit polls mean something, in the sense of having useful information? Of course. Does it make sense to dismiss something as meaningless without exploring it at all? I don't think so. I'm with Super Simian on this. Differences between exit polls and vote counts that systematically favor Bush mean something that should be explored. If it turns out that there was a problem with the exit polls, then so be it. But we would have learned something along the way. And, we all know, there are far too many experts out there who are either blinded by their own opinions or are easily persuaded to endorse someone else's opinion, especially someone with influence. So - in my opinion - we should think for ourselves and investigate what looks odd or suspicious.