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Bayrou Rising | 45 comments (45 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Laurent GUERBY suggested I add a line for other candidates, so I did:

I contemplated whether to add abstentions as well, but ultimately I opted against it. The percentages for the candidates are the percentages of the people who named a candidate, not of everyone polled, so a line for abstentions in there might be a bit misleading, given that it's not directly comparable.

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Mon Mar 12th, 2007 at 01:14:51 PM EST
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Re: polls (none / 1)

Above all it's one of the weaknesses of averaging all the polls: they don't handle abstentions/undecideds in the same way and have very different numbers for this.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Mar 12th, 2007 at 03:06:07 PM EST
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Re: polls (4.00 / 2)

That's true. Still, it'll be interesting to see what happens when the campaign kicks off for real and we get closer to election day...

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Mon Mar 12th, 2007 at 03:26:54 PM EST
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