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Old 06-09-2008, 03:13 PM
Strangelet
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Re: U.S. Presidential Election 2008
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Originally Posted by IsiliRunite View Post
Hypothesis:
This is where 35-40% of people are Democrats and support democrats regardless, and 35-40% of people do the same for Republicans. The 20-30% in the middle, the people that have to make a decision, will sway the election IF one prejudice in their mind is more prevalent than the other.
Recent gallup poll. 4-5% unsure. Sorry if this is indoctrinated, devil advocacy. but it looks like your hypothesis suffers from unfounded assumptions.

where's your twenty percent conflicted crackers? (no fair lumping independents with undecideds, as it appears the independents have made up their mind one way or the other, unless we want to say they've already gone through their guilt versus prejudice thought process?)
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Last edited by Strangelet; 06-09-2008 at 03:16 PM.