'02 Election Data Set for Public Release

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The missing-in-action 2002 national exit poll data have been given to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research for public release after a panel of academic experts reviewed the survey and concluded the results were reliable.

Voter News Service, composed of CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, Fox and the Associated Press, conducted the exit poll on Election Day last year. But the survey findings were never made public after a massive computer collapse on election night prevented VNS from tabulating the results -- a failure that led directly to the demise of VNS.
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Lois Timms-Ferrara, associate director of the Roper Center, said the data should be publicly available "in a week or two. . . . We want our archivist to look it over and make sure there is nothing problematic about it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22154-2003Sep3.html

[arcane1]

1. hmmm

very interesting....

[Devils Advocate NZ]

2. You gotta wonder what is in there...

ABC News and Fox News will not be identified as sources when the exit poll results are publicly offered by the center. In meetings with the other consortium members, both organizations had expressed concern over the accuracy of the results and questioned the value of releasing the survey data 10 months after Election Day, other consortium members said.

If Fox News is concerned over the accuracy of the results, you gotta wonder exactly what is in there. After all, when has Fox News ever been concerned with accuracy, especially if it is favourable to the right wing?

[hang a left]

3. I love the "we want to look it over

and make sure there is nothing problematic about it." Yeah, I bet you do.