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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:48 PM
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It's moronic to quote state "leading" with 2500 votes in. Broadcast media is stupid.
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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:50 PM
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1. how do you call an election with less than 1% of the vote in?
they haven't even counted the votes?
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:51 PM
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2. Exit polls
The ones that were supposedly so wrong in 2004 are actually pretty accurate.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:53 PM
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3. Yup.
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:54 PM
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4. What get's me...
is how soon they are to say which one has won it without all the votes counted...this "projected" winner thing is Bullshit...
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Township75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 07:57 PM
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5. It's called statistics. Learn it.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 10:43 PM
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6. Lies, damned lies, and statistics?
Zero percent doesn't give much to project from, and I know statistics.
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