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Like the author's reasoning or not, the tone sure has the odor of a vehement anti-conspiracist conspiracist.
One thing stand out starkly: Why are *European* exit polls' reliabilty being used to claim for ours? Um, let's look at OUR record of exit polling and judge OUR elections by those, NOT by that of the Europeans.
Things like this make the writer look mighty like a person whose mind is made up before the research, which in turn churns out exactly the data the author is looking for, rather than all of the data necessary to render a judgement. I'd love to see what data the author squelched-- I have students who do the same thing for their projects, and the whole method just stinks.