Reply #1: Favorite part so far:

[Helga Scow Stern]

Regarding the uncooked CNN exit poll data used by Simon and Freeman:

Aside from some possible minor errors in calculating overall candidate vote shares from the male and female vote shares shown on the screen, these can be regarded as relatively unadjusted real exit poll data. These are the best exit sample data for the 2004 U.S.
election currently available.

In contrast, the “final” exit poll data analyzed in the CalTech/MIT study, and discussed by Corn and Levin, are useless as an indicator of exit-poll/actual-vote divergence.4 This confusion over the data (or lack of investigatory diligence as this point is spelled out in
great detail in the widely publicized Freeman and Simon pieces) has however sufficed to convince the mainstream media that there was no unexplained exit poll discrepancy.