Could such red shift correlation be explained away by the raw exit poll data?
A recent paper, working with the CNN numbers–assuming proper poll methodology, no discriminatory suppression, and an accurate and honest popular vote count–finds that the probability Kerry would have received his reported popular vote total of 48.1%, or less is one in 959,000–a virtual statistical impossibility.128″Put another way–given the exit poll results, proper poll methodology, and an accurate and fair voting process — Kerry would be the popular vote winner of Election 2004 98.7% of the time.” More Questions Than Answers What is clear from all the number-crunching and analysis is that there are more questions than answers about the exit polls at this point. The curse of statistics, it is said, is that they can never prove something, but only disprove it. Many of the questions about the accuracy of the exit polls, the relationship of the polls to the actual vote totals could quickly be answered by accessing the raw, precinct-level data.129. There is an army of both statistici
