http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/01/21/how-the-exit-polls-were-fubared/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/01/21/how-the-exit-polls-were-fubared/#comment-263 X Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:19:07 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/01/21/how-the-exit-polls-were-fubared/#comment-263 Yet another "explanation" with the exact same fatal flaw. Anyone can make up plausible sounding fiction to support any position they like, but it automatically qualifies for the bullshit-bin unless it at least <i>claims</i> to explain how this year was any DIFFERENT than previous years. If there were some problem with "liberal-biased pollsters", then why haven't we seen the effect in previous years? Are they claiming that this year all of the polling professionals went collectively berzerk and abandoned decades of expertise and accurate methodology? That they just woke up one morning and decided "Heay, this year lets fire all the conservative pollsters! This time we'll just use a bunch of hippie college students!"? Yet another “explanation” with the exact same fatal flaw. Anyone can make up plausible sounding fiction to support any position they like, but it automatically qualifies for the bullshit-bin unless it at least claims to explain how this year was any DIFFERENT than previous years. If there were some problem with “liberal-biased pollsters”, then why haven’t we seen the effect in previous years? Are they claiming that this year all of the polling professionals went collectively berzerk and abandoned decades of expertise and accurate methodology? That they just woke up one morning and decided “Heay, this year lets fire all the conservative pollsters! This time we’ll just use a bunch of hippie college students!”?

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