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To: ambrose
Telephone interviews with 801 likely Ohio voters,

What gets me about polls that small is that an individual voter can sway the percents a lot. With 48% (384) and 43% (344) all it would take is 20 Bush voters to jump over to Kerry's side to make it an even race.
7 posted on 07/22/2004 10:13:41 AM PDT by lelio
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To: lelio
With 48% (384) and 43% (344) all it would take is 20 Bush voters to jump over to Kerry's side to make it an even race.

Or 20 to go the other way to make it a blowout. That's why they calculate margin of error with a certain confidence level ...

11 posted on 07/22/2004 10:27:45 AM PDT by JohnnyZ
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Or 20 Kerry voters jumping to make this a landslide :)


18 posted on 07/22/2004 10:37:19 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
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