Reply #11: My conclusion was that the shift was spin

[davidgmills]

My suspicion now is that any shift was due to past election fraud especially 2002. Freepers cited 2002 as evidence of the shift.

I saw the inital raw exit polls and my thought was: "so much for shift."

By the way I am almost sure Rassmussen was doing an even split in his polling.

To get a surplus of democrats in the exit polls, Mytofsky would have had to go to some heavily democratic areas and intentionly skew the results. I have never heard as an excuse for the exit polls that Mytofsky intentionally over plolled democratic precints. The only excuse given for the gap between dem and repub numbers is that the repubs refused to talk to pollsters. Freeman has pretty much tore taht excuse a new one. The other excuse was gender which has even been disavowed by Mytofsky, I beleieve. But there was never any mention of overpolling dem precincts.