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JHB

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4. 2 reminders:

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Fri May 18, 2012, 10:25 AM

May 2012

1) Ask yourself "How accurate have these sorts of polls been in the past?"

2) A national poll doesn't count for crap anyway, because it's the electoral count that decides the election. This poll doesn't show a state-by-state breakdown, and the per-state margins of error would be larger.

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