Re: Are the Forces of Darkness on the March?

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

interleaved.

bc

David T. Marx wrote:

> Any attempt to understand this election in terms of exit polls, which have been shown to be wrong,

misguided assumption, if one assumes his vote as reported to the
pollster is how the voter thought he voted.  As a record of how voters
intend their votes, exit polls are more accurate.   The difference is a
result of ballot formatting (butterfly), incomplete chadding, fraud, etc.

> is misguided.  You have attributed a belief system on voters without any basis for this conclusion.
> I think this kind of analysis is of little use in the grand scheme of things.  Its much easier
> just to acknowledge the outcome - we have a winner and we have a loser.

When the outcome is a fraud accepting it is criminal.

> On the other hand, if you like polls, I saw one today that has determined that there was no
> increase in the turnout of "evangelical christians" over that in 2000.
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> > but this one may be of some interest to folks who read this list:
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> > http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-11-09-04.htm
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