# Bruce Bartlett on Epistemic Closure

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 27, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-bartlett-on-epistemic-closure/642263 "2012-11-27T14:20:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-bartlett-on-epistemic-closure/642263/21 "2012-11-28T20:21:04Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> He mentioned it right after the election, discussion how many Republicans got all their information from right-wing sources and were genuinely surprised that the actual election results pretty much matched the pre-election polls.

Oh…Don’t worry though. The folks on the nuttier side of the Republican party have explanations for that too: What happened was that the polls were biased but that some combination of Hurricane Sandy, the mainstream media’s reporting of the polls “suppressing” Republican turn-out, and outright fraud miraculously caused the final results to match those pre-election polls.

And, no, I am not making this up. Go look at [unskewedpolls.com](http://unskewedpolls.com) or at posts like [this](http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/09/a-post-election-oddity-im-noticing/#comment-1142711) on a right-wing website. These guys have gotten so good at reality-denial that it has become second-nature to them.

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