Reply #34: VNS didn't

[Febble]

call Florida "accurately" for Gore. Their data wasn't good enough for an accurate call either way.

That's not to say Gore didn't win, he did, probably by tens of thousands of votes. But probably not by enough to show up in the exit poll, given the very sparse precinct sampling.

They happened, if you like, to be RIGHT when they called Florida for Gore. But that was because two errors cancelled out - their own precinct sampling error, and the "error" by which thousands of voters either cast votes for Buchananan that were meant for Gore, or cast votes for Gore that were never counted.