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jfern
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« on: August 15, 2005, 02:31:10 AM »

There's some funny sh**t in the exit polls. A couple of percent of the people approve of candidate A, disapprove of B, and voted for B. If Nader wasn't running, some Gore voters switch to Bush, and vice versa.
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jfern
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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2005, 01:00:45 PM »

Exit polls have become so unreliable it's hard to trust them anymore.  Remeber how they predicted Kerry victories in Ohio?  Then again, maybe we are a nation of stupid people.  A recent study showed that only a relatively small percentage of Americans could find Iraq on a map.

Exit polls are usually pretty accurate. The fact that the exit polls were off in the Ukraine "proved" that the election was stolen.

For something with probability near 0% or 100%, the MOE is smaller.
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