[trisham]

I'm just saying that the "I talked to people" method means exactly squat.

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Yes. It's absurd. There's a story about that I can't quite recall, but it had to do with a group of voters asking how a Republican (GWB?) was elected, because "no one they knew voted for him".

[Mr. Silverback]

I know a columnist for the New York Times (who virtually never left Manhattan and left the environs of NYC even less) wondered how Nixon could have won because she didn't know anyone who had voted for him.

The science writer Marianna Gosnell says she had a college professor who used to illustrate bad science by challenging his class to prove North Dakota exists. His main piece of evidence was that none of them knew anyone from North Dakota, and class after class, there wasn't a person in the room who knew anyone from North Dakota.