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POLL: AMERICANS EVENLY DIVIDED OVER WHICH POLL THEY BELIEVE
Gallup, Zogby in Statistical Dead Heat
Americans are evenly divided over which presidential election poll they believe, with
the Gallup poll and the Zogby poll drawing roughly the same number of likely voters,
a new poll of likely voters reveals.
In the poll, taken by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Public Opinion, 48%
said they believed the Gallup poll and 47% trusted Zogby, a statistical dead heat,
says Dr. Davis Bevins, who supervised the survey for the Institute.
"With just two weeks to go until the election, neither Gallup nor Zogby has broken
out," Dr. Bevins says. "It is really too close to call."
Perhaps in response to the ever-tightening race between the rival polling companies,
the competition between Gallup and Zogby has grown increasingly nasty in recent days,
with both companies airing expensive negative television ads attacking each other.
In one particularly vicious attack ad, Gallup accused Zogby of "flip-flopping" on
whether Sen. John Kerry or President Bush was ahead in the race.
But Zogby soon retaliated with an attack ad of its own, accusing Gallup of having a
lesbian daughter.
For his part, Dr. Bevins warns that the accuracy of his own poll may be suspect since
the voters in the survey were contacted exclusively by phone: "We find that a lot of
people are unwilling to answer the phone these days because they're afraid it might
be Bill O'Reilly."
Elsewhere, election officials in Florida said that they have encountered a new
problem with their electronic voting machines and that the time-code "12:00" will not
stop blinking on and off.
http://www.borowitzreport.com/
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Gallup, Zogby in Statistical Dead Heat
Americans are evenly divided over which presidential election poll they believe, with
the Gallup poll and the Zogby poll drawing roughly the same number of likely voters,
a new poll of likely voters reveals.
In the poll, taken by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Public Opinion, 48%
said they believed the Gallup poll and 47% trusted Zogby, a statistical dead heat,
says Dr. Davis Bevins, who supervised the survey for the Institute.
"With just two weeks to go until the election, neither Gallup nor Zogby has broken
out," Dr. Bevins says. "It is really too close to call."
Perhaps in response to the ever-tightening race between the rival polling companies,
the competition between Gallup and Zogby has grown increasingly nasty in recent days,
with both companies airing expensive negative television ads attacking each other.
In one particularly vicious attack ad, Gallup accused Zogby of "flip-flopping" on
whether Sen. John Kerry or President Bush was ahead in the race.
But Zogby soon retaliated with an attack ad of its own, accusing Gallup of having a
lesbian daughter.
For his part, Dr. Bevins warns that the accuracy of his own poll may be suspect since
the voters in the survey were contacted exclusively by phone: "We find that a lot of
people are unwilling to answer the phone these days because they're afraid it might
be Bill O'Reilly."
Elsewhere, election officials in Florida said that they have encountered a new
problem with their electronic voting machines and that the time-code "12:00" will not
stop blinking on and off.
http://www.borowitzreport.com/
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Originally Posted by dean,Oct 20 2004, 09:10 PM
In the poll, taken by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Public Opinion, 48% said they believed the Gallup poll and 47% trusted Zogby, a statistical dead heat, says Dr. Davis Bevins, who supervised the survey for the Institute.
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Originally Posted by rjosey8385,Oct 21 2004, 07:48 AM
I'd actually heard that the numbers were more like 52% for Gallup and 53% for Zogby, but that it could climb much higher as Florida votes are tabulated.
Just think, the elections in Afghanistan went smoother than they usually do in Florida.
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Originally Posted by rjosey8385,Oct 21 2004, 09:06 AM
Hadn't thought of that! Maybe we need military action in Florida, too.Hey, Dean, is your current Avatar a picture of you?
I wish that I could say that I'm that handsome, but it's a pic for Samhain (Halloween to all you non Celts).
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Originally Posted by Chazmo,Oct 21 2004, 04:04 PM
That looks like Predator to me, Dean.
I'd like to have that suit so I could hide behind the hedges on Halloween night. Think of all the candy I could get.
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