Please read this post from Mark Blumenthal on the purpose and uses of exit polls. I'll probably starting digging through them and start posting facts and charts late tonight trying to smoke out interesting regional and social dynamics. You can check the exit polls yourself; don't take someone's word when they assert something, check it yourself, pundits lie or are misinformed a great deal of the time. I learned that from listening to election "coverage" during the primaries on the radio, I can't imagine what TV must be like....
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I've gotten an absolutely unprecedented number of requests to write about RFK Jr's Rolling Stone article about the 2004 election.
Of public opinion, exit polls and fraud (or the lack thereof) (Part 3)
In chapter 3 of More Guns, Less Crime Lott presents an analysis based on two exit polls of gun ownership (conducted in 1988 and 1996) that purports to show that a 1% increase in a state's gun ownership causes a 4.1% decrease in the violent crime rate and a 3.2% decrease in auto thef
The second part of the interview with Dr.