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I have been with Salon since the earliest days and I am sure I was one of your first subscribers. However, I will not be renewing and this is why.
Farhod Majoo's "rebuttal" of the Rolling Stone article got my blood boiling. I was willing to keep an open mind until I got to the issue of exit polling. I did not know enough about other claims to refute them but I am somewhat of a polling buff and I know a little about polling and the science of statistics.
Farhod claims that exit polls are not all that accurate. Then there should be plenty of examples of them failing in Modern Western Democracies right! Naw, he doesn't provide any and maybe because he can't. Recent election in Italy, exit polls hit it on the nail - very close election too.
Recent election in UK. Exit polls were precise to the fraction of a percentage. However somehow in the US and only in States at play every single result breaks to Bush. Statistically it would be easy to under stand if this happened 10 or 20% of the time but 100% - every
State broke for Bush. No.
The claim the Bush voters were somehow more reluctant to declare their preference? Balderdash. I was an election worker and those people were positively smirking on their way to the polls. I could tell who they were voting for by the dirty look they gave me with my Kerry poster. Anyway statistically you would expect to see a reluctance to comment higher in predominantly GOP districts you see the opposite. Farhod gives a numerically inaccurate and far fetched explanation for this. Yes Farhod it could have happened and pigs could learn to fly but not bloody likely. I bet you loose a lot of subscribers because of this. If we wanted garbage like this we could just tune into Fox for free. Make my day - fire Farhod Bush and issue an apology or KMA.
Antojr
Florida
