*Secret* vote?

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From William F. Buckley, Jr.'s column at
http://www.uexpress.com/ontheright/

"So what I want to know is: How is it that on page P-7 of The New York Times for Nov. 9, 2006, I can find out how many people voted Democratic and how many Republican, nationwide, among: whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians; men, women; 18- to 29-year-olds, 60 and older; didn't complete high school, did, some college, college graduate, postgraduate; Protestants, white Protestants, Catholics, white Catholics, Jews, white evangelicals; family income under $15,000, under $30,000, under $50,000, under $75,000, under $100,000, over $100,000; Easterners, Midwesterners, Southerners, Westerners; gays, lesbians, bisexuals."

That's kind of scary, isn't it? How *do* we know who voted for whom?

They get this data from people who are willing to answer phone polls after they voted. I got calls asking me who I voted for on Election Day and I told them to go to h-e-double hockey sticks and that my vote was confidential.

So the sample of the polls is "People who will answer questions over the phone about voting, race, color, creed, location ..." That doesn't sound very reliable. I wonder how many pollees make up the whole thing. <I'm a pink Odin-ite living on a volcano and I voted for dubya.>