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davidgmills Donating Member (651 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 10:35 AM
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14. I have heard this claim as well
Edited on Fri Dec-31-04 10:37 AM by davidgmills
But I seriously question it. I'm a lawyer. We have to judge credibility all the time. To me, there really is no motive to lie about who one voted for in a Presidential election. Yes, there always will be people who feel like they needed to be on the winning side, but I just don't see the evidence for it in Presidential polling. There is just no motive to lie about it and nothing to be gained by lying.

But in the 2000 election, the question of who won is really a cloudy issue. Gore won the popular vote and Bush (thanks to the SC) won the electoral vote.

So I find this argument even more frought with danger in this instance.
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