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Lies, Dang Lies, And Statistics


T-Hybrid

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While this is in regards to today's election, this is not a political thread. I just happened to see this report when I booted up my email this evening.

 

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Yes. Your eyes aren't decieving you. With 0% of the precincts reporting, MSN has declared Obama the winner in Vermont. This is why the Horse-Race mentality the media takes into every election season drives me crazy.

 

I mean...C'MON. Even Wikipedia demands better references than that.

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Fox has been doing the same thing; calling Vermont and Delaware for Obama and West Virginia for McCain, with only Kentucky's flash-applet-thingy actually reporting votes.

 

Edit: Yeah, this is all fluctuating like crazy. Lurking minute-by-minute seems not to be working well. I leave now to go eat dinner.

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Vermont. Why. WHY do all the voting shenanigans always swirl around Vermont?

 

It's because we're cool like that.

 

I saw. Kinda jumping the gun, there. Hope they're right.

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I recall residents in poor Sutton county finding their votes for Ron Paul in the primaries amounted to "0".

 

It's okay though, the numbers were finally rectified.

A year later.

>__<

 

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Vermont. Why. WHY do all the voting shenanigans always swirl around Vermont?

It's not shenanigans. News outlets claim victories for candidates at 0% many times. It happened on many occasions during primaries and in the previous 2 elections it happened multiple times. It's their rush to beat out every other news outlet.

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I never trust the news; by the time they report on it, everyone already knows. As I like to say, no news is good news, so all news must be bad. :P

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Vermont. Why. WHY do all the voting shenanigans always swirl around Vermont?

It's not shenanigans. News outlets claim victories for candidates at 0% many times. It happened on many occasions during primaries and in the previous 2 elections it happened multiple times. It's their rush to beat out every other news outlet.

I remember those times. And I thought the mess in 2000 was leading networks to do a better job of not actually calling anything until the polls had closed across the country.

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