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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.)
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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.

17 posted on 11/22/2003 8:33:59 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Uday and Qusay and Idi-ay are ead-day)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Looks like democrat voters are still being disenfranchised or the pollsters used punch-card ballots

Pregnant 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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