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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-04 07:34 PM
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108. Sorry this defense is offensive to me
suddenly a pollster with 25 years of experience internationally, and a record of accuracy doesn't know how to properly weight polls and account for clustering and the like and then doesn't know enough not to release such unweighted polls, leaving them up into the early evening hours on election night for all the world to see. Then, with 70% of the results accounted for, this same pollster has a "computer crash" and no backups, so the results are offline for hours, then suddenly they take a complete shift in the opposite direction when 100% of the sample is accounted for, then defying all odds and showing that * won instead of Kerry. Right.
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