Posted on 10/04/2002 9:52:34 AM PDT by John Jorsett
So that's how the LAT inflated their poll numbers for all the democrats. Someone mentioned it on the first thread about the poll, too. I doubt that low turnout will necessarily help the democrats in a clean election, since they have such an unlikeable candidate. But, maybe the LAT is compensating for expected vote fraud in a low-turnout election.
I wonder whether the LAT "normalizing" method also had other unrealistic extrapolations. Lets say they normalized the Hispanic portion of responses to the census data of Hispanic people as a fraction of total population in the state instead of to the percent of registered voters who are Hispanic, which is lower but unknown. This would really help the democrats' numbers, too.
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