[extropy-chat] Tyranny in place

[Joseph Bloch]

Oh, I've read it, and others like it.

I still dismiss it.

In regards to the first point, which is the most potentially damning in 
an objective sense, I can speak as an expert in the field, being Manager 
of Election Polling for one of the largest (and most accurate in the 
2004 election cycle) public opinion polling companies in the country. 
The argument that exit polls in 2004 bespoke of any wrongdoing is 
completely inaccurate. It completely misses the point of what exit polls 
are supposed to do; not predict winners and losers, but give insight 
into the characteristics of the supporters of each candidate. Indeed, 
the man in charge of the exit polling in 2004 made a spectacularly 
public mia culpa at an AAPOR conference, where he admitted that the exit 
polls were dead wrong. See: 
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/05/aapor_exit_poll.html

The rest I dismiss as the same sort of partisan wrangling that one sees 
in any election. I can put forth accusations of Democrats bussing in 
homeless people into Ohio, and bribing them to vote Democratic. I can 
cite instances where military personnel (who traditionally vote more 
Republican than Democratic) were systematically denied their vote in 
places controlled by Democratic operatives. Ad nauseum. It is the usual 
partisan nonsense, and one sees that particular Medusa's head raised 
after every election, where the losing side cannot possibly believe that 
they couldn't have _really_ lost.

If you persist in such feelings, though, you might find this of use:

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Quite done with this particular conversation.

Joseph


Samantha Atkins wrote:

>Joseph,
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>Before you dismiss the idea of a stolen election you might want to read
>a bit, perhaps starting with the following.
>
>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
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