Apparently New Hampshire is a neighbor state to New York.

rinsd

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:08 PM
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Apparently New Hampshire is a neighbor state to New York.

Maureen Dowd is an astute and fair analyst of Democrats

Exit polls are worthless.

Things I've "learned" on DU today.

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Gormy Cuss

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:12 PM
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1. It is. We call the border line "Vermont" n/t

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MadBadger

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:13 PM
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2. Exit polls arent worthless, but they arent always reliable

see 2004.

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Gormy Cuss

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:21 PM
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7. Yes, and that is an important distinction.

Exit polls aren't always reliable. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're not. Ones with solid methodology and execution are very reliable, although not infallible. Ones with weaker methodology or flawed execution sometimes arrive at the right result, but usually are wrong.

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HeraldSquare212

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:13 PM
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3. You know, I'm so alienated from Clinton

that when a headline said 'Senator from NY' (where I live), I thought, Damn, who's running from NY?

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William769

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:13 PM
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4. And iowa is a neighbor State of Illinois.

Edited on Wed Jan-09-08 03:15 PM by William769

I guess we all can learn today.

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Adelante

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:15 PM
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5. Where does that border state thing come from?

I keep seeing it repeated no matter how many times it is corrected. Oh, right.

Congrats, rinsd :hi:

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rinsd

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:56 PM
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9. No idea...

I didn't understand Iowa & Illinois being neighbor states either even though they border each other. Is it just name recognition from media spillover?

Thanks for the congrats. And good luck for the rest of the race! :hi:

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TwilightZone

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:15 PM
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6. And, don't forget - Iowa is representative of every other state in the country!

Edited on Wed Jan-09-08 03:16 PM by TwilightZone

Learned that one last week. It is a perfectly accurate representation of every other state in the country.

A self-described "political expert" told me that one, so it must be true.

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AlertLurker

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Wed Jan-09-08 03:54 PM
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8. Interesting. I read on a map yesterday that NH was in Canada.

I had hopes of voting, but somebody straightened me out...

:rofl:

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Little Star

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Wed Jan-09-08 04:00 PM
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10. I heard that NH really had a caucus, but it was secret so that

Hillary could steal the state.

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