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To: processing please hold
While 52 percent of Obama's supporters were amenable to a Clinton candidacy, only 49 percent of Clinton voters said they'd be happy with the Illinois senator, according to the survey by Harvard University's Institute of Politics.

I hate it when they float statistics like this around, and act like it actually means something. 3% is not statistically significant. They skew it by using the words "while" and "only".

15 posted on 02/19/2008 9:10:48 AM PST by scan59 (Let consumers dictate market policies. Government just gets in the way.)
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To: scan59

That’s their jobs, twist it into a different meaning. Leading the reader to the conclusion they want them to arrive at.


43 posted on 02/19/2008 10:14:29 AM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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