Reply #12: If I understand....we're saying the same thing...

[Sancho]

Pollsters should have a count of the number of males, whites, etc...coming out of the poll between 5 and 6PM (a demographic profile of where the poll sample came from)...even if only a few voters answered the poll...and so they should have SPOTTED any trends, lies, or confounding variables during 15 hours of polling!

It doesn't make sense to have pollsters standing there with Kerry winning and not having evidence of self-sampling errors, bandwagon lies, or last minute surges. All those Bush voters would be evident in observations of the pollsters, trends in the questions that correlate wth "Bush" voters, etc.

IF M-E has evidence of such; they've had lots of chances and haven't mentioned it...so the polls are accurate and M-E doesn't want an external examination of what's in the file drawer.