Iowa: voting at night. NH: voting during the day. Different folks turn out for each. Add...

Captain Hilts

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Wed Jan-09-08 12:37 AM
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Iowa: voting at night. NH: voting during the day. Different folks turn out for each. Add...

Edited on Wed Jan-09-08 12:38 AM by MookieWilson

to that the traditional pattern of polling number inflation for black candidates and the weird pattern of Clinton getting more votes than polling numbers and two patterns converge to create the distortion in the NH polling numbers.

Two of Clinton's core constituencies: older women and people with kids found voting at night in a multi-hour event difficult, and stayed home. Daytime voting in NH changed that.

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