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12/31/2004


National exit poll data leaked

By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor



Some national exit poll data from the presidential and other election races on Nov. 2 have been leaked online.

Others in prominent positions are in the process of vetting the data for any useful and/or relevant information, RAW STORY has learned. This site hopes to provide further context over the days to come, but for now the data can be viewed at Scoop.co.nz.

The leaked data show weighted results from the six-network exit poll pool at various points on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, up until the point Sen. Kerry conceded. They display exit polls for various regions, including the South, East and Midwest.

They do not, however, provide the “raw” data that many have been looking for. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), whose minority half of the House Judiciary Committee is investigating election irregularities, has asked the networks to release the raw data–that is data that is broken down by county and state–and the networks have refused, claiming their tallies are proprietary.

The national exit polls are a point of contention for many progressives, as they seemed to show Senator Kerry with a clear margin of victory on Nov. 2. Exit polls leaked to the press and this site for specific states showed Kerry defeating President Bush
by roughly four points nationally; Kerry was projected to win both Florida and Ohio.

Many feel that the exit polls suggested vote-rigging, though the battle has swung from side to side, and the national press has given more credence to Massachusetts Institute of Technology studies showing that the polls could have varied due to natural error.

A RAW STORY analyst, however, who formerly taught Mathematics at MIT, David Anick, found that the odds of Bush gaining by four percentage points over the exit polls nationwide was one in 50,000. Subsequent studies put the odds at an even greater margin



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