skippy the bush kangaroo

Thursday, August 28, 2008

no bounce for obama

what's that you say? oh, wait...yes there is...

princeton, nj -- democratic candidate barack obama has gained ground in the latest gallup poll daily tracking average from monday, tuesday, and wednesday, and now leads republican john mccain among registered voters by a 48% to 42% margin.
but it's within the margin of error, right? oh, wait...no it's not...

the general-election results are based on combined data from aug. 25-27, 2008. for results based on this sample of 2,723 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
posted by skippy at 11:38 AM |

1 Comments:

Easy enough to specify the so-called
"margin of error" on data which can never be verified. The election is in November. Even once those results are known, the "real" result on August 25-27, if people had had to go to the polls on that day, will never be known. Considering that McCain hasn't even named a VP yet, this is just so much hot air.
commented by Blogger Left I on the News, 12:52 PM PDT  

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