Reply #20: My opinion is that Mitofsky is blowing smoke! [View All]

[Mastiff]

Why is his sampling error so much higher than those in the past? I suggest that he is trying to justify the election results. He is supposed to be a great pollster. Thats why he was given this job. However, the exit poll results are way off the scale when it comes to the comparison with the vote totals recorded. Generally exit polls are correct within fractions of a percent. Here they were way off. I think these guys are trying their best to refute Freeman. They went looking for some technical reason to call his results into question. It took them long enough to come up with this methodology. It is technical enough to be over the head of most voters. Remember the saying, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit".
Just keep in mind that exit polls are historically extremely accurate. The exit polls for Kerry in Ohio matched the pre-election polls. The counted vote total was way off these numbers, even with the contamination of the raw exit poll data with the reported returns. Also remember Mitofsky won't release the raw data. This makes it harder to dispute any figures he throws out.
Don't let them baffle you with this bullshit. The are just trying to justify the theft.