Reply #39: Thanks. I was going to post a link to the 1/19/05 report by Edison-Mitofsky ... [View All]

... which attempted to answer questions about why their exit polls differed so markedly from the reported vote. Information on p. 37 of that report deals with the "RBS" b-s. However, the 'net link that I found to that report (listed on one of the papers critiquing Edison-Mitofsky) no longer works and the web-site www.exit-poll.net contains no reference to that report. For the sake of people who are new to this debate, I strongly recommend that they read the 1/19/05 report. Do you have an active link that would allow them (me) to access this report again? For such an historic document, I am surprised it is not still readily available on the 'net.

Here is a link to one of several critiques of the report. (Any interested reader can Google "exit polls 2004 Edison Mitofsky" to find many other scholarly and not-so-much critiques of how the 2004 exit polls were conducted, analyzed and massaged.)

www.electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf

The RBS issue is discussed on pp. 8-11 of this report.

As for Mitofsky not thinking much of Zogby, I suppose if someone (Zogby) accused me -- publicly and repeatedly -- of violating the ethical standards of my profession, I would do my best to denigrate him also. One good place to hear Zogby's comments about this issue is the documentary, "Stealing America: Vote by Vote".