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DUmmie FUnnies 12-27-05 ("Kerry Won!!! Tool for Everyone to Prove It")
DUmmie FUnnies ^ | December 27, 2005 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

Posted on 12/27/2005 5:03:33 AM PST by PJ-Comix

Have you ever been in the proximity of a member of the Flat Earth Society? If so, then you might have had the tedious experience of being subjected to endless "scientific" data to "prove" beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Earth is indeed flat. Likewise, the DUmmies are putting forth tons of statistical analysis to "prove" that Kerry actually did win the election in 2004. And speaking about 2004, this DUmmie THREAD hilariously titled, "Kerry Won!!! Tool for Everyone to Prove It-'Scoop'" was posted in DUmmieland YESTERDAY, not in the immediate aftermath of election 2004. Yes, the DUmmies still can't get over it. And like the pathetic members of the Flat Earth Society, they will overwhelm you with "facts" to "prove" that Kerry WON the election. As usual, the tool-toting DUmmie rants are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, who has absolute statistical proof that Mondale beat Reagan, is in the [brackets]:

TruthIsAll Interview--Kerry Won!!! Tool for Everyone to Prove It-"Scoop"

[The Earth Is Flat!!! Tool for Everyone to Prove It---"Scoop"]

What more could you ask for on Christmas and the start of Hanukah. Well, it’s all here: the paper, the links, and the free Excel simulations. Happy Holidays!!!

[Happy Kwanzaa!!!]

Special for “Scoop” Independent Media
from Washington DC
Michael Collins
Dec. 21, 2005

[Methinks Michael Collins has consumed too many Tom Collins.]

USEFUL RELATED LINKS:
The Law of Large Numbers & Central Limit Theorem: A Polling Simulation
http://www.geocities.com/electionmodel/TruthIsAllPollin...
Excel Polling Simulation Model
2004 Election Model Projection; Exit Poll Collection; Excel Interactive Election Simulation; Other links.

[My eyes glazeth over.]

The Kerry concession speech on November 3, 2004 marked the beginning, not the end of the controversy over the 2004 election. Just hours before the speech, Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards emerged and said that, “John Kerry and I made a promise to the American people that in this election every vote would count and every vote will be counted."

[Including the votes the Democrats stole in the Washington state gubernatorial election?]

Democrats were in a state of shock. 2004 was a banner year for new registrations, party financial support, and activism. Reported new registrations favored Democrats all over the country. Democrats were well ahead of Republicans in new registrations in Ohio. South Florida, the “scene of the crime” in 2000, saw major Democratic efforts and a lackluster Republican response.

[Watching Susan Estrich's drunken face slobbering all over herself on Election Night, I would say the Democrats were well beyond mere shock.]

Democrats matched and exceeded Republicans in funds raised. For the first time, the internet proved to be a highly potent form of fund raising. The Democrats collected $10 million a month for the Kerry Campaign on the Internet alone. Other groups supporting the Democrats raised substantial funds. MoveOn.Org and New Democratic Network ran parallel campaign commercials and provided other support with the $25 million they raised during the election cycle.

Activism was at an all time high. People who had never worked in elections volunteered in large numbers and local Democratic parties throughout the country saw a surge in citizen participation. While Kerry may have conceded the election at 2:14 p.m., Nov. 3, a large portion of the population failed to accept the final results. They knew something was wrong. As one Virginia activist said, “This is simply not possible, the national results or here in Virginia.”

[As one DUmmie said, "I BEEEELEEEEEVE!!!]

INTERVIEW WITH TruthIsAll

[Interview conducted in the Rubber Room.]

Why all this energy devoted to the 2004 election?

[To provide LOTS of comedy material for the DUmmie FUnnies.]

I was appalled when the election was stolen from Gore in 2000. I had posted daily projections of my Election Model on DU in the four months leading up to the election. The projections were based on state and national polls. The final national model had Kerry 51.6 % of the two-party vote; the state model 51.8 %. The state model included a Monte Carlo simulation with a Kerry expected total of 337 electoral votes.

[All the Monte Carlo simulation proved was that Kerry won 51.8% of the time at the roulette wheel.]

The initial exit polls and the Iowa Election Markets showed that Kerry was a 3% winner. When Bush came from nowhere after 9 p.m. to win, I had this feeling of Déjà vu. So I decided to confirm the doubts using mathematical probability analysis, based on the preliminary exit poll data downloaded by Jonathan Simon.

[The Iowa Cattle Futures Markets show that Hillary will be nominated in '08.]

Anything you’d like to say in closing?

[They're coming to take me away, ha-ha!]

I’ll keep posting as long as I have something to say. If my work has in some small measure helped to raise awareness, then it’s all been worth it.

[If my work has in some small measure helped to keep DUmmies frustrated, then it's all been worth it.]

The miracle of timing that made the full set of national exit polls available to the world and the election fraud movement.

[This miracle rates right up there with Our Lady of Fatima.]

11/02/04

11:00 p.m. EM Server goes down. Exit Polls available on the Internet.

[Is that all? I was hoping the EM Server would go down and make the Petra Verkaik photos from her paid website available free on the Internet.]

11/04/04

12:25 a.m. Final National Exit Poll captured by Jonathan Simon. 3047 Respondents: Kerry 51% - Bush 48%

[That poll had insufficient data. It didn't include the write-in votes for Mary Carey.]

1:33 a.m. Edison Mitofsky Servers come back online effectively ending Internet access to the National Exit Polls.

[It was all a PLOT to keep the world from knowing that Kerry actually won in the Exit Polls.]

2:30* a.m. Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards addresses the crowd and nation promising to “fight for every vote.” (time approximate)

[2:40 a.m. Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards wastes a half hour fussing with his hair and staring at himself in his beauty compact.]

1:25 p.m. National Exit Poll revised by EM to take final election results into account 13,660 respondents: Kerry 48% - Bush 51%

[AHA! So Bush actually did win the exit polls. Well, that makes it official then. Whoever wins the exit polls wins the presidency. The actual voting results are just a mere technicality. It is the exit polls which really count.]

2:14 p.m. Kerry concedes the election to Bush.

[2:20 p.m. Kerry buys himself an extra-large jockstrap and a huntin' license.]

This remarkable sequence of events was not the beginning of the end but rather the end of the beginning. The remarkable intensity of research, analysis, and debate that energizes the modern day election fraud movement was born crying “foul!”

[Yes, yes. Quite remarkable...YAWN!]

FROM:

The Law of Large Numbers & Central Limit Theorem: A Polling Simulation

by TruthIsAll

http://www.geocities.com/electionmodel/TruthIsAllPollin...

It's for those who say: "Math was my worst subject in high school".
If you've ever placed a bet at the casino or race track,
or played the lottery, you already know the basics.
It's about probability.
It's about common sense.
It's not all that complicated.

[It's about hogwash.]

It's for individuals who have taken algebra, probability and statistics and want to see how they apply to election polling.

It's for graduates with degrees in mathematics, political science, an MBA, etc. who may or may not be familiar with simulation concepts. Simulation is a powerful tool for analyzing uncertainty- be it coin flipping or election polling.

It's for Excel spreadsheet users who enjoy creating math models.

It's for writers, blogs and politicians who seek the truth:
Robert Koehler, Brad from BradBlog, John Conyers, Barbara Boxer, Mark Miller, Fitrakis, Wasserman, USCV, Dopp, Freeman, Baiman, Simon, Alistair Thompson, Krugman, Keith Olberman, Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes,Stephanie Miller, etc.

It's for Netizens who frequent Discussion Forums.

It's for those in the Media who are still waiting for editor approval to discuss documented incidents of vote spoilage, vote switching and vote suppression in recent elections and which are confirmed by impossible pre-election and exit poll deviations from the recorded vote.

It's for naysayers who promote faith-based hypotheticals in their unrelenting attempts to debunk the accuracy of the pre-election and exit polls.

[It's for obsessive DUmmies who refuse to accept the REALITY of the election results.]

I thought I was going nuts the evening of the election. Thank God I found DU...

[...which is Chock Full O' Nuts.]

Welcome! Lot's of good stuff to use there. With "the obvious becoming OBVIOUS" to the wider public, the theft of 2004 (and 2002 GA & 2000) becomes highly relevant. After all, we're talking about LEGITIMACY!!! Why should the people wait for the lazy CM to report this? They can just download the Excel program and prove it to themselves.

[I guess the attendants won't have to beat you with rubber mallets any more. They merely need to allow you to download that Excel program to keep you calm and secure in the knowledge that the program proves that Kerry really won.]

* Supporters need to "get out of it", the WH that is.

[You merely need to show them that Monte Carlo simulation to convince the EVIL Bushies to exit the White House.]

Election fraud: See it, hear it, speak it...Everyday, all day, 24/7.

[Election fraud obsession: See it, hear it, speak it...Everyday, all day, 24/7.]


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: du; dummies; election2004; johnkerry; kerrydefeat
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21 posted on 12/27/2005 5:36:31 AM PST by Fintan (See??? Sometimes I do read the articles.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Well, I will say that quickly conceding was Kerry's finest hour. He proved, at the least, he was better than gore...


(my wife makes a casserole with the left over turkey, stuffing, mashed taters, and gravy. layered in a roasting pan, it is soooo good...)

Thanks for DUFU, though, I have to admit, I find DU down right painful to read at times..
22 posted on 12/27/2005 5:39:00 AM PST by tje
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24 posted on 12/27/2005 5:41:44 AM PST by Jackknife ( "I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father'." —Will Rogers)
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To: PJ-Comix

More DUFU's!!! What a Christmas!


25 posted on 12/27/2005 5:42:03 AM PST by Amityschild (Merry Christmas!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Democrats were well ahead of Republicans in new registrations in Ohio. South Florida, the “scene of the crime” in 2000, saw major Democratic efforts and a lackluster Republican response.

As a native Floridian, I consider South Florida as a separate state.

26 posted on 12/27/2005 5:42:22 AM PST by jslade (What is "social justice" but enforced lack of justice for those who do productive work?)
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To: PJ-Comix
Let the DUmmies keep fighting the 2004 election while we work on 2006 and 2008. That scenario works just fine for me.

Of course, if I did think a DUmmies could be taught, I'd point out the following tidbits of information:

  1. Sample selection. Going into the 2004 election, I was already warning people not to trust the exit polls because they were likely to be skewed. After the 2000 disaster and the dissolution of VNS, a new polling system was put into place. Being it's first time out, getting a representative sample correct was unlikely. As it turns out, the samples suffered from age, gender, and party affiliation biases due to the locations and self-selecting nature of who did and didn't respond to the polls. When normalized by the demographics of people who actually showed up to vote (based on the voter rolls), the 51-48 Kerry margin turned into a 51-48 Bush lead.

  2. Margin of error. At 3,000 or so respondents, and percentages in the 40-60% range, the margin of error is about +/- 3%. That means that even if we assume the 51-48 Kerry exit poll lead, a Bush 51-48 win is still within the 95% confidence interval. Of course, assuming that 51-48 exit poll has problems (see above).

  3. Confidence level. Even if we allow that the un-normalized Kerry margin of 51-48 was correct, and that Kerry being -3 and Bush +3 was unlikely even if possible, the poll still only has a 95% confidence interval. That means that 5% of similar surveys -- or 1 in 20 -- is simply a "clunker" that produces invalid results. Given the problems I point out in #1, a 95% confidence interval is also misleading, because there were systematic problems that made the un-normalized exit polls unreliable at any confidence level or margin of error.

  4. Empirical observations. Regardless of any advance misgivings, I knew something was badly wrong with the exit polls when easy Bush states were not called early -- states Bush would eventually win by 8% or more (well outside the margin of error).
I say it in #1 above, but it's important to reiterate: once the exit polls were normalized to meet the demographics of the people who actually voted, they were remarkably accurate when compared to the final vote total -- more so, even, then I would have expected for a new system.
27 posted on 12/27/2005 5:42:32 AM PST by kevkrom (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!)
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To: tje
(my wife makes a casserole with the left over turkey, stuffing, mashed taters, and gravy. layered in a roasting pan, it is soooo good...)

I think the Publix turkey breast I used might have been pre-cooked. It took 2 1/2 hours to cook it for me. But that was absolutely the BEST turkey I ever ate. Maybe will get another one today.

28 posted on 12/27/2005 5:43:14 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: jslade

Make that Southeast Florida is a separate state.


29 posted on 12/27/2005 5:45:00 AM PST by jslade (What is "social justice" but enforced lack of justice for those who do productive work?)
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To: PJ-Comix
I was appalled when the election was stolen from Gore in 2000. I had posted daily projections of my Election Model on DU in the four months leading up to the election. The projections were based on state and national polls. The final national model had Kerry 51.6 % of the two-party vote; the state model 51.8 %. The state model included a Monte Carlo simulation with a Kerry expected total of 337 electoral votes.

.
WHERE DID I GO WRONG??!

30 posted on 12/27/2005 5:46:58 AM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: jslade
As a native Floridian, I consider South Florida as a separate state.

Actually South Florida is trending more towards Republicans recently. One reason is the large influx of Venezuelans and Colombians who tend to vote conservative. Also Black people from the Caribbean here are more conservative than American Blacks. BTW, in 1964, Broward County voted strongly for Goldwater. Then it began going strongly Democrat but that Democrat tendency is getting less and less. This is one reason why Bush carried the state more easily in 2004 with a comfortable margin.

31 posted on 12/27/2005 5:48:18 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: jslade

Southeast Florida might be more liberal than the rest of the state but I wouldn't live anywhere else. Down here we are stocked full of colorful eccentrics. I plan to have some of them on my DUFU Podcast.


32 posted on 12/27/2005 5:50:04 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: PJ-Comix

I love it that the DUmmies are still talking about exit polls and looking to the past. I guess the future looks too grim.


33 posted on 12/27/2005 5:50:07 AM PST by Ditter
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To: PJ-Comix
One of the FEW Petra pics where she is actually clad in covering.

Tell me about it! Took me at least 25 minutes and going through 1000 Google images of her nude to find this one. Not that I am complaining.

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What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.
34 posted on 12/27/2005 5:51:08 AM PST by speed_addiction (And the Lord said, "Who shall I send? Who will stand for us?" Said I, "Here I am...Send me.")
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Tell me about it! Took me at least 25 minutes and going through 1000 Google images of her nude to find this one. Not that I am complaining.

Well, if you were in a hurry, you could have turned "safe search" on in your Google image search preferences. Of course, the scenic route is usually more fun than the highway, when you have the time...

35 posted on 12/27/2005 5:54:23 AM PST by kevkrom (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!)
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To: Fintan

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #768.


36 posted on 12/27/2005 5:57:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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Whatever happened to that book deal you were looking for, PJ? What's the latest, if you already said so, I'm sorry, I must have missed it.


37 posted on 12/27/2005 5:58:05 AM PST by NapkinUser ("Our troops have become the enemy." -Representative John P. Murtha, modern day Benedict Arnold.)
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To: PJ-Comix
[2:20 p.m. Kerry buys himself an extra-large jockstrap and a huntin' license.]

2:21 p.m. T. H. Kerry stuffs an Idaho into the jock strap to take up some slack.

38 posted on 12/27/2005 6:04:43 AM PST by SCALEMAN
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What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.
39 posted on 12/27/2005 6:08:15 AM PST by speed_addiction (And the Lord said, "Who shall I send? Who will stand for us?" Said I, "Here I am...Send me.")
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40 posted on 12/27/2005 6:08:30 AM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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