Reply #11: Repost: Bush and the Noe Factor in Ohio's Rigged 2004 Election

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Elections & Voting
Bush and the Noe factor in Ohio's rigged 2004 election
By Evelyn Pringle
Online Journal Contributing Writer


Jun 12, 2006, 00:41

By late afternoon on November 2, 2004, nationally, all the exit polls showed John Kerry winning with 50.8 percent of the votes and showed George W Bush with 48.2 percent, meaning Kerry had a 2.6 percent lead over Bush.

But when the vote counts came in at the end of the day, Bush had 50.9 percent of the votes and Kerry had 48.1 percent, meaning Bush received 2.8 percent more votes than Kerry.

According to Ron Baiman, PhD, from the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois in Chicago, who has 16 years of experience teaching statistics to both graduate and undergraduate college students, there would be about one chance in 900,000 of that kind of statistical error occurring.

Ohio was the most important state to Bush. He could not win without it. He spent so much time in the state that people began to wonder whether he had left a forwarding address to Ohio.

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K is for

http://www.dailykos.com/
and Kerry, the Kennedys and Krugman
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html