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To: unlearner
freep'd, but I am very skeptical about CNN's poll accuracy.

It's not accurate. No on-line poll is, since it's self-selecting.

The purpose of on-line polls is to draw hits to the website.

The polls, themselves, are worthless.

27 posted on 09/16/2004 9:59:50 PM PDT by sinkspur ("I heard that the traditionalists have taken over the FR religion forum"--Cardinal Fanfani)
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To: sinkspur
"It's not accurate. No on-line poll is, since it's self-selecting.

The purpose of on-line polls is to draw hits to the website.

The polls, themselves, are worthless."


But this looks more like a bot voting than actual people. I don't watch cnn. If they mentioned the poll on tv then maybe that would be a reasonable explanation.

Or maybe some of the liberal bloggers are sending their minions to vote.

But personally, I think these numbers are not merely statistically inaccurate, I think the poll is rigged (not necessarily by cnn).
34 posted on 09/16/2004 10:21:47 PM PDT by unlearner
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