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On Polling

Posted Oct 03, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Oliver Wasow, New York, New York

Sharon Begley has an interesting piece on the science of polling in this weeks Newsweek.  She addresses an number of issues, including cell phone polling and the difference between Likely Voters and Registered Voters. What I don't understand is who makes up theses "undecided" voters?  I've been doing some phone calling for my candidate this past week (Obama, if you must know) and I haven't come across one person who hasn't either decided -with a passion - whom to vote for, or has decided that the whole system is corrupt and has no plans to vote at all.  I did have a long talk with one Vietnam vet who wants to nominate Ted Nugent, but that's a story for another day....

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