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Polls measure averages. The margin of error demonstrates the range where that average could be. For example, if 45 percent of voters say they will vote for you, in a poll with a margin of error of five percent, that means your support is somewhere between 40 and 50 percent. If in the same poll, your opponent gets 39 percent support, the six percent difference does not mean you are ahead. Because your support could be as low as 41 percent, and that of your opponent as high as 44 percent, you are tied...
...Gallup poll (where Gore gets five percent more support than Bush) has a margin of error of four percent. The Voter.com poll (where Bush gets two percent more support than Gore) has a margin of error of three percent. Thus, in both polls, Bush and Gore are in a "statistical dead heat." No one has an edge. Nevertheless, this article, like many others I have read, mistakenly puts Gore ahead...
...most blatantly inaccurate, giving Gore six to 10 percent post-convention leads in August and early September, then taking several pages to explain why he's so popular. Three things should make people question the credibility of these polls. First, the results of these polls have generally shown more support for Gore than most others, including Reuters, Gallup, and the Battleground poll. Second, the headlines are based solely on registered voters--a fact that might be easy to overlook, given that it took five or more paragraphs to discover. Third, Newsweek has lauded Gore with such headlines as, "Candidate...
...indisputable--over 30,000 people die every year because of firearms, nearly 4,000 of them are under the age of 20. On the campaign trail to become President of the United States, Bush has downplayed his connections to the National Rifle Association (NRA) and has claimed to support common sense gun control proposals, such as closing the gun show loophole and requiring criminal background checks for sales at gun shows. In addition to some minor changes in federal law, Bush claims that the stricter enforcement of current laws would reduce gun violence without any further infringement on the American...
...look forward to under a President Bush? In fact, five years after Bush became Governor, Texas still does not require criminal background checks at gun shows, and Texas has quite a few of those472 gun shows in 1998. Bush has said in the past that he would support mandatory background checks, yet his own words and their support by 85 percent of Texans have, in five years, resulted in no legislation. The full extent of what he has done in Texas has been to make empty promises (on camera, of course, to those pesky reporters) and then evade...