Reply #26: This is some of the worst written crap...

[blackspade]

I have ever read.

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Instead, the report’s authors said, a variety of anomalies, some of them outside the pollsters’ control, added up to create a nationwide overstatement of Democratic support, especially in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Those factors differed from precinct to precinct, combining in various permutations to create “a sizable overstatement of the estimated percentage of the vote for John Kerry.”

Most significantly, “it appears that Democrats are just more likely to take the exit polls than Republicans,” Gawiser said. “ Why does that happen? What can we do to reduce that?”

He added: “It’s an internal problem. It’s one that NBC feels very strongly that they have to look at to minimize. They seem to be looking at them.”

Preliminary handling of data from voters questioned early in the day also overstated the proportion of women who voted, who tended to favor Kerry, the report said. The error was corrected for subsequent interim reports, but by then news of Kerry’s “victory” was already rocketing around the World Wide Web.

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This is the biggest cop out I have read about the exit poll "problems". It is obvious to me that these guys are incompetent and have no business being in the polling industry. It seems to me that the excuses they are throwing out there are silly on the face of things and probably make them culpable to the fraud at worst. This article does nothing to detail the polling problems other than "we don't know what happened...Duh...It could have been a number of things" MSM sucks.