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To: ifinnegan

Can anyone versed in stats explain to me why the “registered” voter number has a lower margin of error than the “primary” voter number? Just because the second sample is smaller?


133 posted on 02/17/2016 3:07:57 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

I haven’t looked at it yet, but if the primary voters are a subset of registered voters then it would have a larger MoE; smaller sample size means larger MoE. So, perhaps they screened very tight on likely primary voters.


230 posted on 02/17/2016 5:24:34 PM PST by Quicksilver (I'll vote for anyone that can truly Make America Great Again!)
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