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To: LPS5 who wrote (1773)	1/21/2005 12:45:15 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 2534

Mystery Pollster's analysis of the offical Mitofsky exit poll screw-up report confirms that, as suspected, the problem was not bloggers, and not some esoteric technical bias it takes an advanced degree to figure out. The problem is that Mitofsky had built a cheesy, dime-store organization that relied crucially on poorly-trained young people at the bottom. MP says: The report confirms that interviewers were often young mostly inexperienced. Interviewers were evaluated and hired with a phone call and trained with a 20-minute "training/rehearsal call" and an interviewer manual sent via FedEx. They were often college students -- 35% were age 18-24, half were under 35. Perhaps most important, more than three quarters (77%) had never before worked as exit poll interviewers. Most worked alone on Election Day. mysterypollster.com Link via Kaus slate.msn.com