It will continue to elude people too dumb to grasp the difference between percent and percentage points.
It's no shock that legions of FReepers who have never even walked past a statistics classroom could leap to ridiculous conclusions, but you'd think 5th Grade arithmetic would be within their grasp.
These are the same folks who are outraged when a state is called for a candidate as soon as the polls close, based on exit polling. The stick their noses in the air and haughtily state “I’ll wait until the votes are actually counted, thank you very much!”
Exit polls are sometimes (but not very often) flawed or inaccurate, and leftwing media outlets do not hesitate to make calls quickly for a Democrat while waiting forever to make a call for a Republican (so as to influence voters in states where polls are still open) but just try explaining statistics or how exit polling works to people with no background in those areas and you can talk until you’re blue in the face for all the good it does.