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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 02:12 PM
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14. tommcintyre, correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it the skew to Bush in...
...the exit polls vs. the official official--the "red shift" that runs east to west, and involves mainly the battleground states (the states where the election was closest, and that Bush needed to win) that makes the official result so suspicious, and not merely or solely because Kerry won the exit polls?

...US Count Votes doesn't give 10 million to one odds against Bush winning in the official tally and losing in the exit polls, but rather against THE IMPOSSIBLE WAY that he wins the official tally. If there were a bias in the exit polls, it would be more or less evenly distributed across the landscape. That bias could be discovered. But there is no possible exit poll bias that can account for the way the official tally varies from the exit polls.

Am I not right? Even if Bush had won the exit poll totals, the official tally would STILL be suspect? (--suspicion of padding his victory, in that case).

This is a very important point, it seems to me. Please enlighten me if I am wrong about it.
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