Election 2004

[Crowley]

just a test to see who you're all voting for, our own poll, the lost Florida absentee ballots btw.... I'm one of the people who hasn't recieved his absentee ballot inspite of sending it out for it over a month ago

[Pixies Chick]

Dems surge ahead!

[Crowley]

according to the real poll expert on the Daily Show, Kerry is going to win. Typically undecideds break against the incumbent

[Kyuubi]

Also the Redskins lost, and everyone knows a football game is more accurate than any "expert".



GO KERRY!

[SUPERECWFAN1]

The Political Expert said also that , unlike most Presidents who are popular and are coming Into an Election (Clinton,Reagan) they have higher approval ratings and higher polling.He said the close Polling doesn't bode well for Bush.

[Pixies Chick]

Fantastic News!


Exit poll analysis points to 2004 election corruption
Posted on Friday, April 01 @ 09:54:59 EST
Group says chance of exit polls being so wrong in '04 vote is one-in-959,000

By Stephen Dyer, Akron Beacon Journal

There's a one-in-959,000 chance that exit polls could have been so wrong in predicting the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, according to a statistical analysis released Thursday.

Exit polls in the November election showed Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., winning by 3 percent, but President George W. Bush won the vote count by 2.5 percent.

The explanation for the discrepancy that was offered by the exit polling firm -- that Kerry voters were more likely to participate in the exit polling -- is an "implausible theory," according to the report issued Thursday by US Count Votes, a group that claims it's made up of about two dozen statisticians.

Twelve -- including a Case Western Reserve University mathematics instructor -- signed the report.

Instead, the data support the idea that "corruption of the vote count occurred more freely in districts that were overwhelmingly Bush strongholds."

The report dismisses chance and inaccurate exit polling as the reasons for their discrepancy with the results.

They found that the one hypothesis that can't be ruled out is inaccurate election results.

"The hypothesis that the voters' intent was not accurately recorded or counted... needs further investigation," it said.

The conclusion drew a yawn from Ohio election officials, who repeated that the discrepancy issue was settled when the polling firms Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International disavowed its polls because Kerry voters were more likely to answer exit polls -- the theory Thursday's report deemed "implausible."

Ohio has been at the center of a voter disenfranchisement debate since the election.

"What are you going to do except laugh at it?" said Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, who's responsible for administering Ohio's elections and is a Republican candidate for governor. "We're not particularly interested in (the report's findings). We wish them luck, but hope they find something more interesting to do." ....

http://smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=20539&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0

WE RE-DEFEATED BUSH!!! Isn't that great? After months of sacrifices, I am so relieved to hear that all of our hard work paid off.

*whew*

So ... there's that.