Reply #91: No, they could not

[Internut]

equal 43% of 122.3m in 2004. But in a poll, the result of "43% of those who were asked said they voted for Bush in 2000" is plausible, for reasons that were explained to you a dozen times at least.

For some reason you keep insisting that if the poll says that 43% of the 2004 voters voted for Bush in 2000, that implies that this actually happened. As was pointed out to you, that could quite easily be explained by people misreporting their past voting behaviors, like they regularly do in other polls.

Another thing you keep misstating is that the "43%/37% in 2000" was the weight that was applied. That is an invention of yours with no basis in reality. No pollster would ever use that statistic as a weight to adjust other variables, because that statistic cannot be relied upon.