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To: WinOne4TheGipper

Having worked for a polling company, I can tell you that these numbers are essentially meaningless.
First of all, It was a telephone poll of only 600 people. That's a very small sample size.
Secondly, you must ask if the 600 people are proportionally representative of the Florida population's demographic profile.
Think about it: who answers these telephone polls? Opinionated people with time on their hands. In Florida, that means welderly (wealthy seniors).
Florida is a battleground state - no question, but a poll of only 600 people cannot be accurately projected to the greater population.


10 posted on 05/20/2004 8:09:30 AM PDT by Ludicrous
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To: Ludicrous
who answers these telephone polls? Opinionated people with time on their hands. In Florida, that means welderly (wealthy seniors).

and who are the people most likely to vote . . . opionated people with time on their hands (coincidentally enough - wealthy seniors.)

23 posted on 05/20/2004 8:38:15 AM PDT by libravoter (Live from the People's Republic of Cambridge)
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