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To: NittanyLion

The numbers do not lie. Though you might prefer to ignore the facts, that won't make them go away. Zog was 2pts off. CBS & Harris were closer, In this universe being wrong means that you are not in fact 'dead on'. You can play pretend all you like, but you are just fooling yourself.


156 posted on 10/20/2004 6:54:05 AM PDT by MMkennedy
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To: MMkennedy
The numbers do not lie. Though you might prefer to ignore the facts, that won't make them go away. Zog was 2pts off. CBS & Harris were closer, In this universe being wrong means that you are not in fact 'dead on'. You can play pretend all you like, but you are just fooling yourself.

I don't pretend to know which pollster's right in this election; you'll notice I haven't argued that in this thread. Currently CBS has Bush up two points, which if I had to guess is probably accurate (based on all other polling firms' results). Make no mistake: I want badly for Bush to win this thing.

My comments on this thread center around what I see as a tendency on the part of many posters here to discount those polls that don't reinforce their predispositions. It's a dangerous and foolish strategy to simply attribute Zogby's poll to "Special Sauce" when he proved accurate in 1996 and 2000 (CBS and Harris notwithstanding).

164 posted on 10/20/2004 7:05:35 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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