Also Sprach Mitofsky
On Wednesday night's broadcast of Nightline, Ted Koppel entertained the Democratic fringe's conspiracy theories behind their recent electoral losses to the GOP. I'm not sure why this indulgence was necessary, except maybe to keep Koppel's bona fides with the liberal element living amongst us, but he gave it as much of an airing as it should ever deserve again.

One of the main characters in the Left's mythology of the 2004 Elections is Warren Mitofsky, the owner of Mitofsky International, which is a firm contracted by the major media outlets to conduct exit polling. (Edison Media Research was the other major supplier of exit polling data to this consortium.)

In the morning and afternoon of 2 November 2004, the Kerrion and Big Media's anti-Bush forces were eating up Mitofsky's data because it showed that Kerry was doing quite well across the board. But by late afternoon and early evening, it became evident that the polling data was crap. Mitofsky himself admitted this on Nightline, saying that no one's perfect.

And you know what comes next. After the smoke cleared and this country was delivered from a victory for those who hate her, the Democrats began complaining that the election had been stolen. On what grounds did they claim this? In large part, it was because of the exit polling. It was too divergent from the final totals ---meaning, obviously, that Bu$hitler had somehow bought off Diebold and thousands of crooked county elections officials all across the United States and King County, Washington.

Professional dissident (and part-time Congressman) John Conyers certainly saw it that way. In an open letter to Mitofsky and Edison, Conyers writes (emphasis mine):

To be frank, blaming such factors as distant restrictions on polling places, weather conditions, the age of exit poll workers, and the fact that multiple precincts were contained at the same polling place, as your report does, does not come close to explaining why the exit polls overstated support for the Kerry/Edwards ticket in 26 states and support for the Bush/Cheney ticket in only 4 states. Many of the factors you point to appear to merely be random characteristics of the election and your exit polling, rather than quantifiable and justifiable explanations. Nor can I believe that the massive discrepancies can credibly be written off to eagerness of Kerry voters to participate in the exit polls.

As a result, I would like to reiterate my request to receive the actual raw exit poll data that you obtained. I would also like to obtain copies of all internal deliberations, memos and other materials of your employees and consultants concerning or seeking to explain the discrepancies. To the extent you have concerns regarding releasing propriety [sic] information, I am willing to work with you to either receive this information on a confidential basis, or alternatively to bring in a neutral, outside expert to review these materials.

I don't know what jurisdiction Conyers or his committee has in this, but it strikes me as bully-boy bullshit. There's more of a justification for John McCain to take piss samples from Barry Bonds than what this stuff entails.

Here's the bottom line: the American People have spoken. Bush won a majority of the popular vote ---as well as winning the Electoral College. John Kerry's election would have been universally understood as a retreat from our mission to crush international Islamofascism. It would have consigned Iraq to oblivion ---and everyone knows that. Thus, in their wisdom, the American People rejected Kerry's lies and cleverness and chose a man who is committed to our safety and the pursuit of the democratic ideal across the world.

Conyers and the rest of the Democratic craphounds are not willing to admit reality. It's not just creepy ---it verges on sedition. For the second time in four years, the party of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson ---two of the most notorious election thieves of the Twentieth Century--- has the temerity to call the election of the President into question ---without justification and without regard for the integrity of our system. It is time to sit down and shut up. To persist with this nonsense about stolen elections is a dangerous way to go.