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...poll of Harvard undergraduates conducted late last month by The Crimson found 73 percent of eligible voters supported Kerry, while just 19 percent favored Bush. The poll had a margin of error of 5.1 percent...
...less than nine minutes into the game, when junior midfielder Jen McDavitt pushed the insertion out to captain midfielder Kate Gannon, who settled the ball and allowed Maasdorp to rip a shot into the cage. The trio again collaborated on a goal less than eight minutes later, pushing the margin...
...loss represented the Crimson’s first defeat of the season in which the margin was more than a single goal...
...right, not first," says NBC News vice president Bill Wheatley. NBC will prevent analysts on its "decision desk," who will sift through the NEP data, from knowing the calls made by other networks. ABC News has a new policy of not calling a winner if the margin is less than 1%, even after all precincts have reported. CBS has moved its decision desk into the studio to give viewers a window into the process. "We'll be trying to explain very clearly where our information comes from, that it's not someone standing over a crystal ball and going 'poof...
...pollsters sampling the whole country? Pollsters usually interview about 1,000 registered voters and, thanks to the magic of statistical math, 95% of the time those 1,000 accurately reflect the opinions of the entire country, give or take a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. But some people are not reached. Polls are conducted by phone, which leaves out about 8% of adult Americans, including those in institutions (prisons, hospitals, military bases), some low-income people and the approximately 4% of adults who have only cell phones. Then there are the people who hang up on pollsters...