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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 10:45 PM
Response to Reply #24
26. There would be no way to update the estimates of Clinton
and Obama voters for each gender. That information is never officially released. Therefore, the original estimate can't be updated. They have to go with what the poll originally predicted.

You could argue that say, final result predictions showed 40% Obama and the poll had 36% men for Obama and 38% female for Obama that both could be raised. But how much for each? You wouldn't know if female was actually 38% and men 42% or the other way around. Anyway, you wouldn't know from any data that became available after the polls closed.
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