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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 10:03 PM
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Pollsters like financial advisers should be required to issue a disclaimer.
Financial advisers must warn, "past performance does not guarantee future performance", Pollsters should be required to state, "Polls only reflex the attitude of the current time and conditions".

In others words if you can tell me what the weather will be like on election day, I can predict voter turn out. Polls this early are just bs, admit it and quit passing on bs.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 10:12 PM
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1. I agree, like they should disclose that the data are made up and phony
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-30-07 08:44 AM
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3. Pollsters do their best to be accurate. There's no money in being inaccurate, BUT
the folks that actually release the data - the group that pays for it - can release and manipulate data all they want.
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maximusveritas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-29-07 10:14 PM
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2. Even if they admitted it
People would just ignore it and post it on sites like this, pretending it was the Gospel truth. There are even people here posting online polls trying to pretend they actually reflect reality.
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