MI: Foster McCollum White & Associates: Obama with a 2% Lead (within the MoE); Ficano Hurting Obama (user search)
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« on: June 14, 2012, 10:39:07 AM »
Quote from: Northeast Representative Alfred F. Jones on June 14, 2012, 08:14:34 AM
Who are these Foster McCollum White & Associates people? How are their number so exact?

Well you see, when you divide one number into another number, usually it doesn't come out to an exactly even number..

Example:  493/860= 57.326%

Other pollsters typical release what we call "rounded numbers"
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