[extropy-chat] Tyranny in place

[Samantha Atkins]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:00 PM, spike wrote:

>> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Bloch
> ...
>>
>> 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...  
>> Joseph
>
> Joseph this comment reminds me of the dilemma the exit pollsters face.
> Those areas in which most of the voters are likely to vote to the  
> left are
> often too dangerous for pollster to enter alone.

Left????  Voting against Bush in 2004 took being way out on the left  
somewhere or likely living in a bad part of town?  Sounds like cheap  
classist argumentation to me.   The polls are not in particularly  
unsafe places by design.  Last I checked exit pollsters worked at the  
polling places.  The race was extremely close so it certainly cannot  
be that predominantly Democrats were found in very dangerous places.

- s