Interesting Polling story

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Registered: 09-19-2006
Interesting Polling story
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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 9:56pm

I currently live in PA, but I used to live in VA.

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Registered: 03-23-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 10:04pm
My cousin works for a polling place in Missouri and she never even sees the phone number of who she is calling. It's completely automated through a computer program, so it's very possible that she's talking to people who no longer live in the area and she doesn't even know it. It does seem pretty strange though.

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 10:40pm

I guess a week from today we can have a discussion about how accurate the polls were.


Personally, I've been saying for some time it will be Obama in a landslide.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 11:20pm
I hope it will be Obama in a landslide but I really doubt it. I know I like to play with the McCain people when they call and bother me - sometimes I say yes and other times I say no just because they won't stop calling. So any information they have on me isn't accurate either. I think that many of the people who now say they are voting for Obama will not actually vote for him next week - we saw that in the primary as well. I will just keep my fingers crossed all day and hope for the best.
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Registered: 09-19-2006
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 6:51am

Ya know it is funny how you mentioned that you play around with the pollsters, because my first reaction was surprise that the pollster accepted my son's answer for me.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-30-2008 - 5:24pm
I think that is why the Nickelodeon poll is usually right on - kids tend to 'vote' the way their parents do.