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title: 'By the Numbers'
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date: '2004-09-08T10:06:28-04:00'
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permalink: /by-the-numbers/
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- politics
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There’s an interesting [analysis](http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-battleground04-an0907.html?mod=home_interactive_features) out from the Wall Street Journal showing the potential effects of the results from the latest Battleground States poll by Zogby. [Electoral-vote.com](http://www.electoral-vote.com/) is also tracking poll results from a variety of sources.
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Let me hereby state that I am (a) no political scientist, (b) no social scientist, and (c) not terribly good with that whole statistical analysis thing. I know there’s a bunch of criticism that’s been leveled at Zogby for his atypical methods and his personal Democraticness. And I know there’s an argument to be made that electoral-vote.com, by compiling the results of multiple pollsters, is equating apples and oranges.
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But my goodness, how comforting I find those numbers.
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And then right behind that, how completely freaked out I am that I’m comforted by anything appearing in or affiliated with the WSJ.
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And then, not too far behind, comfort again, because one assumes the WSJ has no reason to falsely boost the Kerry campaigh.
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So I’m going with comfort, which I just thought I’d share.
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