Reply #150: But you can challenge it pseudonymously, Mark Lindeman?

[BradBlog]

Brad, I just have to ask flatly: have you actually read the paper?

Of course I have. Long ago, when you first published it.

If so -- or, for that matter, if not -- could you please point me to the passage that argues that "Bush legitimately won Ohio"?

Given your dishonest representation of who you are (as you deceptively post pseudonymously both here and at dKos, using different names in each place and fail to identify yourself in either) and your loathsome personal, ad hominem attacks both publicly (if pseudonymously) and via private email to those who've subsequently sent me your comments, I'm not particularly inclined to offer your the courtesy of a legitimate public debate.

I'll be happy to note, however, that where your paper argues Exit Polls, in and of themselves are not "iron clad" proof of anything, including the theft of Ohio, I've never disagreed. You might have come to learn that had you spent more time engaging in the professional discussion that one would expect from a "political scientist" rather than the despicable ad hominem attacks you have chosen to embarrass yourself by engaging in.

If so, how do you account for this bizarre interpretation of it?

As mentioned, your shameful, dishonest, unprofessional, un-scientist-like behavior has put your thoroughly amongst those who do not deserve the decency of a legitimate reply. Note that's not the case for many of your colleagues such as Blumenthal, etc. with whom I may disagree from time to time, but who has the decency and professionalism to engage in honest debate. Something that you, sir, are wholly lacking.

Brad, do you ever deign to engage people's actual arguments? Or is that simply not in your repertoire?

As you would know, if you bothered to read The BRAD BLOG, or most of my discussions here, I do so all the time. But when you arguments are based on "Brad has books to sell" (or similar such nonsense, as you post later in this thread) and when you use ad hominem attacks behind the cowardly shield of pseudonymity and private email that you believe will not be shared with me, you no longer have the respect to merit such a respectful reply.