Reply #2: I am not a naysayer

[OnTheOtherHand]

but I am not afraid to tell you when you are not making sense. Getting bored of it, yes, but not afraid.

I don't know what you mean by arguing that "the final national exit poll was correct," so it is hard to comment on that. I do suspect that Bush won the popular vote, and that the so-called "reluctant Bush responder theory" is substantially correct. So does that mean that I accept both choices 1 and 2?

No matter how many times you say it, you have not presented evidence to demonstrate that 43% was a "weighting multipler for Bush," whether valid or invalid. Do we agree that actually, the exit poll data were weighted to official returns, not to reported 2000 votes? If not, you will have to present evidence.

"that weighting mix implies that Bush 2000 voters outnumbered Gore 2000 voters by a whopping six percent margin."

No, it does not, and the reason has been explained to you many times: people are known to misreport their past votes.