Some exit poll answers that bring more questions

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Nov 092004
 

Lawrence Lessig points us to a few answers to my last post. I knew that Voter News Service was out of the picture after the 2002 election. Apparently, it’s replacement is National Election Pool. It was those six news organizations (AP, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News) who came up with the questions. I still can’t seem to find the questionnaire. I suspect that you have to pay for the subscription to get it along with the data. Because some of the exit polling was so far off, there’s wild speculation from both sides. Mr. Lessig is right. If Edison/Mitofsky want to maintain their credibility, they may have to open the data to an independent third party for scrutiny.

 Posted by on November 9, 2004 at 10:01 pm

A virtual shovel for all your B.S. needs

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Nov 092004
 

Found via Josh Marshall, a 2004 election blue-red map weighted for population density to counter all of those “look at all them red states” arguments.

And some Boston Globe debunking of some of the post-election marriage/values debate, which is a pointless discussion. I still want to research the exit poll that everyone’s quoting placed “moral values” as one of the issues in the election. Who conducts the poll? Who decided that was a choice? What were the other choices? Why was it added? You get the idea.

EDIT: More input on the
“moral values”.

 Posted by on November 9, 2004 at 5:14 pm

Trackback

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Nov 092004
 

I’ve been wanting Trackback, something you MT kids take for granted, in phpNuke for quite some time and Dan Macioce was the first one to implement it at the end of last year. I somehow got busy and missed it until this week. Well, life got in the way, he never got very far past alpha with it and then took down what he had completed. I managed to track him down and ask him if he still wanted to maintain it. He’s been gracious enough to send me the code and I added it tonight. I’d appreciate some help testing it out, so feel free to ping this post and we’ll see what happens. I still need to go through the spec for Trackback and trace through what he’s done, but I just might pick up where he left off. Stay tuned…

EDIT: I already found one spot where a template isn’t being replaced correctly in the original story link on the trackback page. I’m not sure if that’s because I’m using an older version of phpNuke or not.

 Posted by on November 9, 2004 at 5:50 am