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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: The polls don't mean a thing.
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 00:57:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 00:57:24 1984
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An anecdote for those of you out there who pay attention to the polls:

The last gubernatorial race in Texas was an interesting one.  One contender
was the incumbent Bill Clements, a cantankerous old reactionary who had
outspent the Democrats by a huge margin to become the first Republican
governor in the state since Reconstruction.  His opponent was Mark White, who
had passed the years of Gov. Bill's reign as Attorney General, making him the
state's top Democratic elected official.

The very day before the election, the polls gave the Republican an eight-
point lead.

The Democrat won.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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