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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2012, 12:48:30 PM » |
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There is nothing wrong with analyzing polls, of course that is the what this forum should be about. And of course there are variations, outliers and house effects. All of that is natural.
Let's face it, polling is part art part science. And no one really knows what the party ID weighting is going to be in 2012 and other indicators like age, frequency of church going, etc are rarely shown, which are even more important really.
I am talking about the knee-jerk complete rejection of considering every poll with someone's prefered candidate down as "junk poll" and every poll showing a preferred candidate up being trumpeted as god's truth.
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