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To: 1035rep

Hope you are right. I’ve seen the polls used as disinformation back as far as 1980.


11 posted on 09/24/2008 11:29:16 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

If you haven’t already seen this you might find it interesting. Have a good night I’m off to bed.

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/09/19/how-liberal-trolls-are-working-to-get-mccain-elected-president.php


18 posted on 09/24/2008 11:36:37 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Luke21

...”Hope you are right. I’ve seen the polls used as disinformation back as far as 1980”...

Yes! In my town, on the very day President Reagan won big, the polls showed Carter winning by a large margin. I began at that time to feel that polling was more a manipulative instrument than a prediction of anything.


57 posted on 09/25/2008 3:46:21 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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