Reply #8: Exit polls are a joke

[dargondogon]

I'm persuaded the U.S. exit polls are deliberately unreliable and sloppily prepared and have been for years. I don't think you can prove anything about the presidential election from these polls, and I think that's intentional. I don't think we'll ever learn the truth from Mitofsky because he's committed to defending his reputation with belittlement, condescension and dismissiveness, not to defending the U.S. electoral system.

He's not the sort of person who will admit an error, and considering that the existence of errors is obvious, he won't answer questions about what happened aside from directing questioners to his Web site.

His exit polls have failed in two elections now to allow an orderly projection of the winner, and in the most recent election the exit polls were irrelevant because the networks awaited actual counts in the battleground state and even in crimson red states such as Virginia. We'll never know the meaning of those early numbers that showed Kerry winning. Mitofsky won't explain them.

He insists that the purpose of his polls is not to audit an election. So he can't project a winner, and he can't help audit the vote. His work is pointless, his career wasted, aside from the fact that it put food on his family.