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To: Anti-Bubba182

How can these polls be SO FAR APART?


39 posted on 09/16/2004 10:29:07 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: beyond the sea
Different polling periods, samples, questions asked.... One thing is that they can't all be right, so any poll with good or bad results has to be taken with a grain of salt, particularly when they are relatively far away from the election.
41 posted on 09/16/2004 10:37:17 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: beyond the sea
"How can these polls be SO FAR APART?"

Less well financed pollsters have to take shortcuts sometimes. If they didn't poll a statistically significant number of voters under age 49, then they'll show that the race is almost tied nationally...because the 50 and over crowd is just about equally divided between Bush and Kerry.

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42 posted on 09/16/2004 10:39:30 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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