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[jfb]

Courtesy of Becky:


Also, I've added the latest poll results from electoral-vote.com to my journal sidebar. I'm glad to see Zogby now puts Minnesota firmly in the Kerry column.

Hey, and I got my absentee ballot! Time to find out what's up with all those initiatives.

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[ahkond.livejournal.com]

... and now Minnesota is back to "exactly tied".

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yep--Rasmussen has been consistently listing Minnesota as a tie, even on polls taken while the Zogby survey was being done. Zogby's got a good track record, but the real lesson is, polls don't really mean anything.

Yesterday I ran across a list of "35 trends that mean John Kerry will win"--things like "undecide voters break for the challenger" and "polls aren't calling voters without land lines, who tend to be young and thus democratic". The problem with hopeful news is that it can make people relax prematurely.