I know I am getting ridiculous, having posted this twice in the Ohio fraud diary, but this is a huge point that needs to be circulated before a harmful and misinformed meme develops.
To wit: earlier in kovie's recommended diary, "Possible HUGE Election '05 Ohio Election Fraud," kos and others trashed the Columbus Dispatch poll that predicted victory for at least two of the Reform Ohio Now measures. The poll was a mail-in and therefore junk. Many of use took that argument at face value.
Not so fast. No less a respected pollster than Mark Blumenthal, aka the Mystery Pollster, confirms that this poll has a strong track record. It does also confirm that mail-in polls are held in very low regard. But Blumenthal thinks that dismissal of the C-D polls' methodology is a mistake. Link.
Excerpts, boldface added:
There is one poll I have been dying to write about since I started this blog. It has a surprisingly strong track record and, as luck would have it, happens to survey only voters in Ohio, one of the most important battleground states in the nation.
Follow the flip.
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