[Vision2020] More Interesting Poll Data

[Dan Carscallen]

In other news, 59% of all statistics are made up

DC

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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."

Andy Borowitz: The Borowitz Report

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