Reply #3: can you support that? [View All]

[OnTheOtherHand]

"...the limitations and in the end the impossibility of the various explanations of the discrepancy between the exit polls and the voting machine results, that is, any explanation other than the obvious: miscounting..."

Simple hypothesis: the polls were wrong. Limited? sure. Impossible? hardly. Whatever else is obvious about the 04 election, it's obvious to anyone who looks that Freeman isn't winning the expert debate. If you think he should be, then maybe you should explain why you think so.

Mark Blumenthal spent a lot of time knocking down RFK Jr.'s arguments, which largely relied on Freeman. Here's . It seems to me that you have a choice. You can either try to support Freeman's arguments point by point and see how far you get, or you can simply assert that the book is good.

Personally, I'm not sure Freeman himself actually thinks that the exit polls were accurate in New Hampshire, or in New York -- to mention two states with double-digit exit poll discrepancies that clash with pre-election expectations and don't comport with other evidence. He tends toward strategic ambiguity on such points. I would love to find someone who is willing to defend Freeman's arguments in detail. Maybe we could actually learn something.