All I want is for you to send me a PDF file...

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Kerry led in all six releases of national exit poll results issued on Election Day by the National Election Pool (NEP).

In the first release, at 12:59 p.m. on Election Day, Kerry led Bush 50 percent to 49 percent.

The advantage grew to three percentage points in a late-afternoon release, where it remained for hours...

I read that the exit subscribers received these results as PDF files.

Some one has to have a copy of these files on their hard drive... We should contact these subscribers and ask them to make the PDF files available for review.

Here is the list of the subscribers:

Newsweek The New York Times
Los Angeles Times USA Today
The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post
Chicago Tribune National Public Radio
Atlanta Journal Constitution Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dallas Morning News KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Newsday
New York Post NHK - Japan National TV
NY1-TV New York 1 News Raleigh Observer
RAI - Italian National TV Sacramento Bee
St. Louis Dispatch St. Paul Pioneer Press
State News - Columbia SC WCBS-TV New York
WCVB-TV Boston WHDH -TV Boston
WNBC-TV New York WNYW-TV New York
Detroit Free Press

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1. Washington Post

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Richard Morin is The Post's director of polling and writes Outlook's Unconventional Wisdom column. His experience with national exit polling goes back to the 1988 presidential campaign.

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2. are you thinking the "raw data" is in these files?? um.....

Just asking to clarify what information you think you will get (if networks release these files)

I do not think they contain any "raw data" which to me would be the actuall research information collected from each respondant--before it is subjected to statistical analysis (ANOVA, t-test or whatever).--and before it is aggregated --(and then sent to networrks).

Thoughts?

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3. I guess I am not sure...

At this point anything would be good. But you may be correct with the reports, that they may contain just the aggregated data, rather the record level information. But who knows? I guess that's what I would like to find out...