<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>As one commenter put it: "The election obviously oversampled Democrats".</span></div><div><span></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Art Deco <art.deco.studios@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, November 11, 2012 7:56 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Polls 'oversampling' Democrats?<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv2092916077">Nate Silver: Post Election Polling evaluations:<br><br>http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-polls-fared-best-and-worst-in-the-2012-presidential-race/?hpw<br>
<br>w.<br><br><div class="yiv2092916077gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Don Coombs <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wildmushroomer@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:wildmushroomer@gmail.com">wildmushroomer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv2092916077gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="yiv2092916077im">Art Deco wrote:<br><br>"I
haven't done it, but if someone were to Google several of the most recent,
so-called major polls, I'd guess there would be a range of
predictions."<br><br></div>That work has aleady been done. In fact, Nate Silver has done it routinely during the Obama/Romney campaign and made the results the basis of his own predictions. (As of last night, he gives Obama a 91 percent chance of winning the electoral college.)<br>
<br>Just Google "538 blog"--<br><br>Don Coombs<br><br>
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