ABC Poll: A Careful Balance Between Left And Far-Left


	ABC Poll: A Careful Balance Between Left And Far-Left

merrie

7-9-2008 9:55 PM

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balad iraq, abc news poll, martha raddatz, troops vote, mccain, obama, hillary

merrie says:

3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton... No mention of the 54 for McCain.

Maybe it wasn't bias --- maybe they just randomly picked five out of the 60 who didn't favor McCain. Never mind the odds of that happening are roughly 1 in 100,000.

It was just luck of the draw! Luck of the draw, I tell you!

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7-9-2008 11:39 PM

sillysam

My kind of odds.

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