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Originally posted by Centurion
Nope..not at all!
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=857
"President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney have taken a two point lead over Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and North Carolina Senator John Edwards (46%-44%), according to a new Zogby America poll. The telephone poll of 1001 likely voters was conducted from Monday through Thursday (August 30-September 2, 2004) during the Republican National Convention in New York City. Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-3.2."
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I'll admit I don't understand statistics, but I don't understand how a poll with a sample size of only 1001 people can show a margin of error of 3% when you are talking about the entire country.