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To: cdchik123
The main sample for the survey was a cross section of 700 registered voters nationally.

That, for starters, makes me think this poll was never meant to be accurate.

I'm not a statistician, but I remember hearing one say that political polls with fewer than 800 respondents were practically worthless.

26 posted on 03/27/2008 1:31:29 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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To: shhrubbery!

If I have learned nothing from my fine friends the Clintons, it’s that polls are great tools to manipulate the masses.

And I knew, I knew with every instinctive cell in my body, that if the Obama political crowd knew the value (and destructiveness) of published polls that soon they were going to have to do SOMETHING to avoid blaring cable news and newspaper headlines shouting the drop in Obama’s popularity.

I expected a bogus poll and I suspected that this very one was it. Only thing it was co-sponsored by the WSJ so it made me wary.

Because it’s bound to happen, it’s bound to happen as sure as the April rains will come. Obama’s ratings are going to drop and I suppose he hopes that the brouhaha will blow over.

It won’t. Obama is toast.


34 posted on 03/27/2008 1:39:08 PM PDT by Fishtalk
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