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To: cdchik123
Brown leads 52% to 42% among likely voters age 18 to 49 and Coakley leads 47% to 46% among voters 50 and older.

I'm calling BS on this one. Every other poll shows Brown's strength is with the , ahem, more experienced folks.

9 posted on 01/16/2010 4:44:06 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07

Whenever you partition poll results by age, sex, political affiliation, or whatever; the margin of error increases for each of the subgroups. The margin of error depends on the size of the sample. If you divide by (say) sex, then the sample size is reduced by (about) half & the margin of error increases a lot. If the M.O.E. is (say) +/4% for a sample of 600; it increases to about +/- 6% for a sample of 300. The results by age, or by sex, etc. could vary substantially within the M.O.A. Try it yourself here:

http://americanresearchgroup.com/moe.html


27 posted on 01/16/2010 4:51:05 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: jwalsh07

Yeah, I tend not to believe much from ARGGGGGGGGGGGGH.


45 posted on 01/16/2010 5:12:39 PM PST by freespirited (People talk about "too big to fail." Our government is too big to succeed. --Chris Chocola)
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