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Quiet_Dem_Mom

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Fri May-12-06 11:25 AM
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14. 502 randomly selected adults responded, according to article.

Randomly ignorant people, apparently.

Yet in similar online polls on both CNN and MSNBC websites the response has been overwhelming against NSA data collecting. About 240,000 people responded to those polls (as of this post).

Even the staff writer admits that his statistics are "iffy". Last paragraph of article:

A total of 502 randomly selected adults were interviewed Thursday night for this survey. Margin of sampling error is five percentage points for the overall results. The practical difficulties of doing a survey in a single night represents another potential source of error.

Online poll results:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12738454
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/12/hayden.ap/index.html (QuickVote pop-up on that page)

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