To: ruffisthudpucker
...The margin of error is +/-2.7% points for registered voters, and +/-4.7% for Democratic voters... Looks like democrat voters are still being disenfranchised or the pollsters used punch-card ballots...
7 posted on
11/22/2003 4:02:00 AM PST by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
+/-2.7% points for registered voters, and +/-4.7% for Democratic voters... Different sample sizes. As a rule of thumb, the "margin of error" is reported as 98% divided by the square root of the sample size, implying (accurate in the first two places) that the sample was 1300 voters, 430 of whom were Democrats.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Looks like democrat voters are still being disenfranchised or the pollsters used punch-card ballotsPregnant chads will do it every time!
However, MOE is a function of sample size, and the dumRat sample is a subset of the overall sample. So this is expected.
20 posted on
11/22/2003 9:19:38 AM PST by
Ole Okie
(Go Sooners!)
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