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To: Scanian

Put this together with the PPP poll released this week that says 40% say Obama should be impeached. 25% republican, 10% independents, 5% democrats. This spells trouble.


104 posted on 12/12/2009 7:48:32 AM PST by stockpirate (Breathing air is a hazard to human's. the EPA)
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To: stockpirate

You can’t add the value of unlike parts together and then treat it as an absolute value of the whole.

So if approximately 40% of voters are GOP then 25% of that is 10% of voters (not 25%). If Democrats are 40% of the electorate then 10% of them is 2% of voters. And 10% of independents (if they are roughly 20% of the electorate) are another 2%.

Then it turns out to be around 14% of voters not 40%. Whoops!! :)


215 posted on 12/12/2009 1:18:40 PM PST by Norman Bates
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