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	Festschrift A Public Opinion Pros Tribute to Warren Mitofsky
	FEATURES Featured Op-Ed Warren Mitofsky: The Original Exit Pollster Remembered By Martin Plissner
	God, in his wisdom, created election units. And, on the way, he gave us Warren Mitofsky. (more)
	Why Respond to Exit Polls? By Robert Y. Shapiro and Lisa Ferraro Parmelee
	Thanks to the work of Warren Mitofsky and the other exit pollsters, we have a means of having our votes counted twice—once in the voting booth and once on the way out. (more)
	Condemned to Repetition: The 2006 Exit Poll Controversy By Mark Lindeman
	Some are arguing that the 2006 exit polls evinced a "landslide denied"—millions of votes stolen from Democratic candidates around the country. Here we go again. (more)
	Why Our Democracy Needs Accurate National Exit Polls By Paul J. Lavrakas
	If there were no reliable national exit poll data gathered and disseminated by a reputable survey organization, our democracy surely would suffer. (more)
	Warren in Mexico: Elections Become Citizens' Events By Ulises Beltrán
	One election at a time, the Mexican electoral system gained the trust of the people (more).
	FROM THE FIELD Restoration of Confidence: Polling’s Comeback from 1948 By Stephen Earl Bennett
	Those of us who utilize surveys and polls tend to forget how close this field came to coming to an end after the fiasco of the 1948 presidential election. (more)
		In Print Presents: A Public Opinion Classic
	Methods and Standards: A Challenge for Change By Warren J. Mitofsky
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