MATH 119 - ELEMENTARY STATISTICS
ARTICLES ON POLLS!
Polls (my handout
in class: revised Fall 2008)
Questions you
should ask about polls
Problems for
Pollsters (Victims of new technologies!)
How CNN Makes
Election Projections (No more Floridas!)
• ARTICLE ON BAD CALL
IN NH SENATE RACE '96
2006 ELECTION AND EXIT POLL "FORCING"…
Math119Fraud2006.pdf
(pdf file) …
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_rob_kall_061117_clear_evidence_2006_.htm
(link)
2004 ELECTION …
• Robert Kennedy, Jr. discusses exit polls and the
2004 election. Some of you may want to skip directly to "I. The Exit
Polls" for the detailed analysis.
DISCLAIMER: Kennedy is a liberal Democrat, and the
truthout.org site also has that slant.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/10467024/
(The Charts)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106R.shtml
(easy-to-access footnotes)
The Art of
Election Polling (Why did polls in 2004 vary so much?)
Exit Poll Fixes
(What went wrong with the exit polls in the 2004 election?)
Math119ExitPolls2004.pdf
(more)
2003 CA RECALL ELECTION …
2000 ELECTION …
The polls blundered in 2000: Math119Polls2000.pdf.