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spazlabz · 2004-09-20, 09:11 AM

Bill, thank you very much for posting this. I think normally my response to something along these lines would be "So what, what matters is the results of the vote, not polls." however, having read an article explaining how the media can influence the direction some voters will take (meaning Florida 2000 and them announcing GWB as the winner way before the polls closed swung the vote in his favor in several key locations). So now I take these polsters and their annonced results pretty seriously because it appears that there are a lot of voters out there who care more about voting for the winning canidate then who that canidate is.
God help us all

spaz

2004-09-20, 09:11 AM	#2
spazlabz You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Bluegrass State Posts: 963	Bill, thank you very much for posting this. I think normally my response to something along these lines would be "So what, what matters is the results of the vote, not polls." however, having read an article explaining how the media can influence the direction some voters will take (meaning Florida 2000 and them announcing GWB as the winner way before the polls closed swung the vote in his favor in several key locations). So now I take these polsters and their annonced results pretty seriously because it appears that there are a lot of voters out there who care more about voting for the winning canidate then who that canidate is. God help us all spaz __________________