Reply #7: not likely Morin has changed his views on... those things

[OnTheOtherHand]

Morin wrote a few weeks after the election that "the 2004 election may have finally stripped exit polling of its reputation as the crown jewel of political surveys, somehow immune from the myriad problems that affect telephone polls and other types of public opinion surveys. Instead, this face-to-face, catch-the-voters-on-the-way-out poll has been revealed for what it is: just another poll, with all the problems and imperfections endemic to the craft.... Sometime soon... (t)he view of exit polls also will change, from blind awe and acceptance to respect tempered by a healthy skepticism. Thanks to the 2004 election and my new best friends the bloggers, we're closer to that day."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64906-2004Nov20.html

Sigh.

The machine arguments do stand on their own.