Those Mysterious, Nonexistent Last-Minute Republicans

Earlier this week, I rhetorically questioned Rob Daves, the apparently-hapless Strib exec who runs Minnesota's favorite form of comedy, the Minnesota Poll.

Today, Scott Johnson does the same, only with actual numbers and stuff (emphasis mine):

Daves explains the mysteriously appearing Republican voters that traditionally make it to the polls in defiance of the Star Tribune's final published pre-election polls as an empirically verifiable closing "Republican surge." For some reason, it is a "surge" that generally is not demonstrated by polls other than the Minnesota Poll. In the comments section of the Daves interview, reader Mark Liveringhouse outlines all of the
other polls over time for the 2004 race showing Bush with 47-48 percent of the vote versus the 41 percent at which the Minnesota Poll had him pegged. He then pulled the exit polling from the 2004 election that shows, contrary to Daves's asertion, that late deciding voters broke for Kerry

And then, if you're so inclined, please try to undercut the statement "The Minnesota Poll is a propaganda tool (witting or not) of the DFL).