Friday, November 05, 2004


Jersey City Mayoral Race Still in Limbo. How do 14 voting machines cartridges go missing? Someone might want to check under the beds of the retirement home I voted in! Or maybe they ended up in the cafeteria by accident.

17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists, by Michael Moore.

That an exit poll is always right is an axiom of politics. It is easier to assume that a compass is not pointing north than to assume that an exit poll is incorrect. It takes a deliberate act of fraud and bias to get an exit poll wrong. Since the variables of whether or not a person will actually vote are eliminated in exit polling, it is like peeking at the answer before taking the test.

But these exit polls were wrong. And the fact that they were so totally, disastrously wrong is a national scandal. There should be a national investigation to unearth the story behind the bias.


Exit Poll Outrage, New York Post, 11/3/04. And I think the focus ought to be on fraud and not bias.

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