Pollsters have a plan for Nevada: Skip it

rodeodance

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Fri Jan-11-08 09:45 AM
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Pollsters have a plan for Nevada: Skip it

Source: lasvagassun

Pollsters have a plan for Nevada: Skip it
Most say we’re too greenat caucusing, too transient

By Brian Eckhouse, Michael Mishak

Fri, Jan 11, 2008 (2 a.m.)

National public opinion pollsters, fresh off a glaring failure to pick the winner in New Hampshire’s presidential primary, are now violently queasy about trying to predict a winner in Nevada.

In fact, for a variety of reasons, major news organizations are taking a pass on polling before Nevada’s Jan. 19 caucus.

The concerns stem from the New Hampshire mistake and from knowledge that Nevada has a large transient population not familiar with the workings of a big-time caucus.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/11/pollsters-have-plan-nevada-skip-it/

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onehandle

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Fri Jan-11-08 10:00 AM
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1. oh darn...

I was so looking forward to polls posted here every ten seconds up until the caucus.

darn the luck...

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bemildred

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Fri Jan-11-08 10:29 AM
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2. Yep. Followed by "so-and-so lost Nevada, the race is over and such-and-such" is inevitable. nt

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awaysidetraveler

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Fri Jan-11-08 06:54 PM
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3. Interesting, RodeoDance,

Yeah, it doens't seem possible to gauge what Vegas will do, and Vegas is most of the population of Nevada. How's Hillary doing over there? I can't picture her being popular in Nevada, but then I wouldn't know how to gauge it myself.

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