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 Message 25493 
 Aaron Thomas to Ron L. 
 Re: My Error 
 15 May 25 12:10:16 
 
TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49
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 RL> Most of the polls are "accurate" if you know how to read them.
 RL> 
 RL> I long learned that most polls skew heavily left.  Knowing that, you can
 RL> get the **real** polling numbers (or close).

I think I know what you mean. There's a million reasons to distrust polls
unless (literally) if it's a voting topic on your BBS.

The media never tells how the "poll" was conducted, they just tell who
conducted it, and we're supposed to trust it because it's a long fancy word
like "Quinnipiac."

Seriously, if you look at a BBS voting topic on Renegade or something, it will
show who voted and how they voted. To me that's a lot better than "Quinnipiac"
or "RootMetrics."

Renegade is hard-coded, so I'd even trust it to conduct our elections.

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