I voted!!! was Re: Obama and daughter HP fans
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Nov 1 08:51:41 UTC 2008
CJ:
> > Polls just aren't wrong.
> Geoff:
> That's a potentially dangerous statement. Here in the UK, we have
> certainly have had examples in the recent past when predictions for
> General Election outcomes were way off beam.
>
> And wasn't there an (in)famous US occasion involving - was it Truman
> and Dewey about 1945-ish? - when the pollsters made a dog's
> breakfast of their predictions?
Geoff (later):
Correcting myself... IIRC it was the 1948 election when Truman won
his term in his own right.
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