[Vision2020] More Interesting Poll Data

[Tom]

Everyone but Pat Kraut.

Tom "who still loves a good joke" Hansen

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> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Pat Kraut
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] More Interesting Poll Data
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> In my reading and watching of CSPAN this is the most unreliable of the
> polls. I don't like any of them. Its VooDoo stuff because of the way they
> ask the questions. As well as how few they call and then call it good for
> the whole nation. Its about as acurate as the ratings on TV....I guess thats
> another email!!
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Force" <rforce at moscow.com>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:58 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] More Interesting Poll Data
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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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