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[stonebender]

What would be wrong with making polling around election time illegal? I'm frustrated at how election coverage is reduced to who is or who is not the front runner. How is it possible that Schwarzenegger gained so much in the polls after his one and only "debate"? Were people's expectations so incredibly low that his ability to speak in full sentences was all he needed to do to impress people?

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[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Yes wording in polls is important. Methodology is too. It's part of my problem with reporting poll results. Folks hear the results and don't know how or don't bother to interpret the results. Then it becomes a fact which impacts how people vote or don't vote. Now here I am doing the very same thing. I heard about the poll I referred to on TV and now I can't find a link for it. Sorry.