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What If It’s Not As Close As (The Media Wants) You (to) Think?

By Denis Campbell • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
The infamous Daily Tracking Polls the media treat as Gospel, are missing several chapters. From Gallup to Zogby these polls are of ‘likely’ voters in the upcoming election. A ‘likely’ voter is defined as someone having voted in the last two Presidential elections.
That means the youngest possible poll participant voted in his/her first election in [...]