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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 02:57 PM
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How did the pollsters do? Mason Dixon/ Ras--Best, Zogby--worse
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Mason Dixon had an average error rate of 3.4% out of 14 races polled.
Rasmussen had an average error rate of 3.8% out of 30 races polled.
Survey USA had an average error of 4.4% out of 18 races polled.
Zogby had an average error rate of 8.3% and on six races was off by more than 15-points.

www.dailykos.com
(you'll have to scroll down a bit)

Those interactive polls are crap.
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