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Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
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E: -6.06, S: -4.84

« on: January 05, 2014, 10:33:46 AM »

Obama was ahead in West Virginia in October?

(around 1:25:00 in the first lecture)

WTFlol?

Yeah, but only because of an ARGGGHHHHH poll:

https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/PRESIDENT/2008/pollsa.php?fips=54
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Tender Branson
Mark Warner 08
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 58,156
Austria


Political Matrix
E: -6.06, S: -4.84

« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2014, 10:38:03 AM »

For newer posters, a note regarding ARG:

How ARG conducts their polling:

First, numbers are picked randomly out of a hat


Then, through a contract with the local school district, third grade students are told to take the numbers and use them as variables in the "The Supersecret Highly Intelligent Turnout formula", hereafter known as The S.H.I.T. formula


It doesn't matter if they do the math correctly - that's what the margin of error is for

ARG then randomly calls a number determined by The S.H.I.T. formula. Racial turnout is based upon what color pen the third-graders used


ARG then subtracts 7 from one of the candidates totals, 'cause 7 is their lucky number

NOTE: ARG is currently considering switching to a new polling methodology involving bloodhounds, a bundle of bananas, and a bingo parlor off I-67
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