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July 17, 2006
"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
RWN has a great example of how the media polls themselves into "shock" and "surprise" on election day (and feeds the kook theories of stolen elections:
from Betsy's Page:
So, if you just looked at the generic poll number for these three districts, you'd think that those incumbent Republicans congressman are in a lot of trouble. They may well be. But, look at how the numbers switch when the respondents are given the names of the candidates.
NJ 07
Linda Slender-D 41
Mike Ferguson-R 50
PA 07
Jo Sestak-D 41
Curt Weldon-R 51
OH 01
John Cranley-D 43
Steve Shabot-R 52
Interesting...
Posted by Aaron at July 17, 2006 12:23 PM
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