MITOFSKY WROTE BACK TO ME!!!!!! [View All]

[Patsy Stone]

Dear Mr. *:
Your comment does not fit with what I said. What I said was that mid-day exit polls are not the final result of an exit poll. And that no one should expect exit polls in mid-day to be the same as the final results. Do you think the score at half time of a football game should be the same as the final score? Furthermore, the leaked numbers were not our best estimates as of the time they were leaked. The leakers had no idea what they were passing along and the bloggers had no idea what they were getting. EVERYONE DID NOT MISUNDERSTAND OUR NUMBERS. The proof of what I am saying is that neither Edison/Mitofsky nor any of the members made any mistakes in projecting winners AFTER the polls closed based on these same exit polls. Only the morons who leaked the erroneous numbers and the bloggers were misled. What is it that makes you think these same people would know how to interpret raw numbers?
warren mitofsky


After I correct him about my gender, what else would you like me to ask him based on this response??


Here was my original e-mail to him:

Dear Sir,

Your argument makes no logical sense. If you believe the “leaked data” or “mis-information” was incorrect or incorrectly misinterpreted by EVERYONE, then please, clear your name and your reputation and release the data. Get yourself off the hook. Prove to me that we can't read a list of numbers correctly. Also, prove to CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, Salon.com and Karen Hughes that the numbers they saw should have been "read differently". Just don't spit on me and tell me it's raining.

If these don't mean anything, if no one, including Hughes, can read or believe them, why do you have a job? What's the point of exit polling at all? Why bother? If not to predict the outcome, what were these polls intended to do? As you are the last link in the chain of “mis-information”, please do the right thing and release your raw data. Do it for your children and their children and the future of the country.