[Vision2020] More Interesting Poll Data

[Tom]

Do you ralize that 80% of all drivers consider themselves better than average.

Hmmmm.

Tom

> 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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