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...Gallup poll (where Gore gets five percent more support than Bush) has a margin of error of four percent. The Voter.com poll (where Bush gets two percent more support than Gore) has a margin of error of three percent. Thus, in both polls, Bush and Gore are in a "statistical dead heat." No one has an edge. Nevertheless, this article, like many others I have read, mistakenly puts Gore ahead...
...percent post-convention leads in August and early September, then taking several pages to explain why he's so popular. Three things should make people question the credibility of these polls. First, the results of these polls have generally shown more support for Gore than most others, including Reuters, Gallup, and the Battleground poll. Second, the headlines are based solely on registered voters--a fact that might be easy to overlook, given that it took five or more paragraphs to discover. Third, Newsweek has lauded Gore with such headlines as, "Candidate's speech propel him to a lead," (August 19th...
...polled is probably the most important factor in evaluating the credibility of what polls have to say. According to Gallup, registered voters, the group Newsweek profiles most prominently, tend to be more Democratic than those who actually vote. Not surprisingly, the Newsweek survey leans to the left of more proven polls...
Sources: The New York Times; USA Today; Gallup...
...Ouch, that hurts!" According to a new Gallup survey on pain, almost 90% of Americans age 18 and older utter those words at least once a month. Equally troubling, fewer than half (43%) of respondents report that they have a "great deal of control" over their pain. That means many Americans are just grinning and bearing ordinary aches and pains, hurting as never before. But I can assure you, from my own experience with sports injuries, this doesn't have to be. Most of our aches and pains are treatable, but only if we're willing to talk about them...