Brad can speak for himself. Personally, I am starting to wonder about this whole Clint Curtis thing. There were no touch screens in 2000, right? What were the exact questions of the polygraph he passed? Curtis worked for NASA {a military branch}. He was a life-long Republican, but now he is a Democrat? I know, this whole thing can be information overload. But my point is, either Curtis is for real, or the whole thing has been staged. A lot of the internet appears to be manipulated by astroturfers. Have you ever heard of Netvocates, Mr. Lindeman?
You see Mr. Lindeman, some of us are into the truth no matter what it is.
The idea of the "dog in the hunt" to me means that you have staked your professional reputation on downplaying election fraud. I think you have taken your narrow view and tried to jam it down everyone's throat through the evoking of authority.
This isn't just about the exit polls. The economy in Ohio was hurting. Remember how Bush talked it down as soon as he was anointed in 2000 by the fascist Supreme Court? How about all the new voter registrations? What about all those interest rate drops and tax cuts for the rich which turned around all that Clinton had accomplished in balancing the budget?
As a "scholar," you must have studied the emergence of the modern age, e.g. the Enlightenment. You must realise there was a divide between the positivists and the Jean-Jacques Rousseau types. But even if we were are to side with the positivists, we end up with Professor Freeman. On the surface he is the noble savage and you are the rene descartes. But the reality is he is the scientist, the authority, not yourself. You have every right to post on message boards. But so does everyone else. And just because you have your fancy degrees and connections does not mean that you are the one on the right side of history.
Who are we to believe on exit polls, a mathematician or a political scientist? Liddle has no math background either, correct? Isn't her field psychology?
What about Steven Hertzberg? Where did he ever get the qualifications to run his Election Science Institute? Was it from his experience with the Department of Defense?
Why is the Steven Hertzberg story being covered up? Did you know he ended up at a mickey mouse "conspiracy" forum? Did you know that the forum he was at has declared that Brad is CIA influenced, while Bev Harris has been called a 9/11 CIA rat? Hertzberg did multiple interviews with the webmaster there. Why is that not news to the election integrity community?
Did you know that Hertzberg ran websites devoted to Ron Paul? Did you know he had the gall to endorse Matt Damschroder right on this very website? Did you know that his brother Robert, who once ran for mayor of Los Angeles, was one of the first to sponsor a bill for the funding of electronic voting technology? Can anyone say conflict of interest?
People are tired of predictable threads which seem to have their fair share of manufactured convolution and limited hangouts. Can you not use your academic imagination and understand that more likely than not Bush has never been elected? You can't prove he won fair and square. The evidence, all of it, not just exit polls, points to the fact that more likely than not, Bush never won squat.
Or look at it this way. Bush is obviously not a bright person. He is the last person qualified to be President. I doubt he could even run a fast food chain. This was common knowledge that he was an idiot. People knew how he fleeced the Texas taxpayers with the baseball stuff. People know that he was the el busto at Arbusto. Why can't you just lighten up and admit that yeah, Bush probably never won squat fair and square. I understand you Mr. Lindeman. I do not hate you. Your snarky attacks do nothing to my now hardened skin. People are just telling you to basically put the elitist snark to the side and be real.
You are a public figure. You are on a liberal forum all the time spinning the same comments. Have you ever been a registered Republican? I heard that you were. If so, then why are you on this board? This place is supposed to be for people on the left. You appear to be on the right. I will apologise if you can direct me to any of your writings exposing the political corruption of the last eight years or of any other proof that you are a liberal. I simply don't see it.
The excessive snarkiness is uncalled for. People don't like to be talked down to. That is precisely what you do. You did it in the video.
Don't you have books to write, students to meet, and articles to research?
Are you actually saying you are an election integrity activist? You seem more like an apologist for a criminal government.
Do you have other ideas to share with the world? Do you think the Administration has comitted war crimes? How do you feel about the lack of the rule of law in America? Should Karl Rove be prosecuted for having Siegelman end up in prison?
It's very difficult to believe you are a Democrat.
You should lighten up and stop trying to forcefeed your one track idea.
Look at it this way. If what you are saying is so true, why dis there such a need to keep repeating it over and over again? Why not just leave the "conspiracy nutters" alone?
There is much more to life than exit polls, Mr. Lindeman. There are many more questions that need to be addressed than your one-trick pony enigma projection.
In conclusion, I think election integrity activists should be wary of groups like the Verified Voting Foundation. Paper receipts on electronic machines is not the answer.
Hand counted paper ballots are the answer. How come our evil government has all this money to char Iraqi babies and bury Iraqi soldiers alive, but there isn't enough money to have hand counted paper ballots? Money should not be an issue when it comes to making sure our elections are legit.
Please show us Mr. Mark Lindeman why we should believe in you as a fellow progressive. You're awfully quiet except for when it comes to exit polls. It's an unsettling quietude. No one likes to get played. You all got played by Steven Hertzberg. That story continues to get buried. I wonder why.