Posted on 04/19/2007 5:26:12 AM PDT by areafiftyone
And what of his past? The claim he was a collaborator while a POW? That is unsubstaniated.
Our Virginia county party refuses to take a straw poll on the presidential race. We won’t get sucked into the divisiveness. OK, so I asked them to do one, so it’s not me. I thought it would be cool to make national headlines for our committee, and maybe get one of the candidates to try to “woo” us.
I liked their “38 participants”. We have twice that show up for our normal meetings, and a lot more when there is something important to vote on. With 38 voters, that means the “22%” was 8.36 votes. Love to know how they did that. 8 would be 21%, 7 would be 18%.
So it’s like they had 8 Rudy, 8 McCain, and 7 Gingrich. But since their percentages don’t match those numbers, I don’t know WHAT they actually did.
Looking more at the numbers:
8 - Rudy (21%) (article: 22%)
8 - McCain (21%) (article: 22%)
7 - Gingrich (18%) (article: 17%)
7 - Gilmore (18%) (article: 17%)
5 - Romney (13%) (article: 12%)
1 - Thompson (3%) (a: 3%)
1 - Hunter (3%) (a: 3%)
1 - Huckabee (3%) (a:3%)
If you ever needed a sign that we started this election campaign too soon, there it is. We are reporting what 38 people living in a town that isn’t even the biggest city in 20 miles of itself think about next year’s primary.
Lets be realistic here, from a pure statistical standpoint, any sample size less than 40 is not considered to be representative of a population.
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