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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 05:18 PM
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73. when in doubt, attack a strawman
yet you agree that the election was stolen and Kerry won

Not at all: Kerry lost the election by 251 electoral votes to 286; that's how presidents are chosen in our system. Kerry should have won, if millions of disenfranchised voters were allowed to vote (people who didn't show up on exit polls, to wit).

Electors used to be chosen by state legislatures, but all 50 states decided to grant the illusion of democracy to its citizens ("illusion" because of Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 etc., and the living re-enactment of the 3/5th Compromise by suppressing minority votes in former slave-holding territories).

Therefore, you must also agree with my election model projection (Kerry 51.63-51.80% of the 2-party vote), my exit poll analysis (Kerry 51.80% of the total vote), along with my optimizer (Kerry 52.16% of the 2-party vote, 51.63% of the total vote).

That's your crucible of faith, not mine. You can only achieve this result by cherrypicking the Mitofsky data you like, to the exclusion of the Mitofsky data you don't like.

So, what you are saying, foo, is this:
1) That Kerry won and Wang was correct in predicting a Bush win.
2) That Kerry won and I was wrong in predicting Kerry would win.


More strawmen:

1) I never said Kerry "won" (because he didn't, whether or not he should have).
2) Since you dropped every poll with Bush in the lead, your "99.94%" predictions were garbage-in-garbage-out, as documented above.

Each time you post, you are exposed as a very confused, tortured soul.

Ad hominems are the hallmark of a dying argument. Projection merely demonstrates a lack of self-awareness.
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