Reply #43: I didn't say they were impossible did I?

[Bill Bored]

I said they were impossible to explain with the reluctant responder hypothesis alone.

Since rBr seems to be the official story of why the polls were off, and there are 2 precincts out of 50 in one state alone where it was impossible for rBr to fully account for the discrepancy (thank you ESI), I think Mitofsky needs to come up with some other "official" explanation(s). If they were presented in the debate with Freeman, I haven't seen them yet, but it is NOT responsible of him to suggest that there is reason for confidence in the election system when we know very well that there isn't.

Mitofsky should accept that the system could have been hacked. rigged and exploited and use his position to work to improve it instead of just defending the status quo and the fallibility of his own useless exit polls.

Fritz Scheuren is another one. There were 4 precincts out of 50 in the Ohio exit poll with Red Shifts where Bush did in fact do better in 2004 than in 2000 (thanks again ESI!). That suggests the possibility of fraud in 8% of the precincts polled. Now is that 8% in addition to the 4% in which rBr could not explain the entire discrepancy, or is the 4% a subset of the 8%, or what?

Until this is explained, fraud is always a possibility, unless the integrity of the election system itself can rule it out, and believe me, it doesn't.

How many like this in the national poll then?

Sorry, but when it comes to this stuff, I'm losing my patience. These guys are either with us or against us.