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Expert mines poll internals on McCain-Palin and Obama-Biden

October 2, 2008 |  9:16 am

Loyal Ticket readers know that 98% of the time -- with a margin of error of +/- 4% -- we have our regular doubts about the plethora of presidential polls on people like John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden -- and even Ron Paul  -- that fall upon all of us at quadrennial times like these.

Ticket readers also know of the 100% factor of our admiration for the funny folks over at The Onion.

They may have outdone themselves this week with their video news report on polls and how to dissect what pollsters call their "internals" that can reveal much about where the electorate is trending. We won't spoil it for you. Just watch. Maybe grab a tissue first; there's a 79% chance you'll need it.

--Andrew Malcolm

And if we offered you the free opportunity to register at Twitter here to get instant alerts of all new Ticket items flashed straight to your cell, would you be a) likely to do it, b) more likely to do it or c) extremely likely to do it, so you won't miss items like this in the future?


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The ticket needs to be on the ball a bit more. This onion episode is alt least a month old. I watched at the beginning of September.

Don't wait for your readers to tell you what's happening. Check out the Onion yourself weekly to see what they've got. I would recommend you check out the one about Obama's plan to to keep sh@#ty jobs here in America.

Is e-mail boy still writing blogs for LA Times? Is he related to the publisher or what? Hey Andy, Bill Gates is testing a new email system all you have to do is forward this notice to six people and you will receive over a thousand dollars. You may want to do a blog on it.



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