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From: csanders@ucbvax.ARPA (Craig S. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reagan Poll, or the cat came back...
Message-ID: <10200@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 23:50:37 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 23:50:37 1985
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In article <13700011@orstcs.UUCP> richardt@orstcs.UUCP (richardt) writes:
>Interestingly enough, the Reagan Opinion Poll went over like a lead balloon.
>A total of 13 people responded.  However, What results I did get were 
>heartening: Our dear Mr. President lost by a noticeable majority(try barely
>better than 1 vote in three).  Here's what the breakdown looks like:
>
>	date/vote|Yes	No
>	---------|----------------
>	1980	 | 3	10
>	1984	 | 4	9
>	Today	 | 4 	9
>
>The breakdown of reasons was predictable, with one exception.  Most thought 
>Reagun was dangerous;  Two thought that he was the greatest thing since white
>bread; and one person thought that Reagan would be less of a wishy-wash than
>Carter, and then got scared of Reagan!

ANY unscientific poll has as much validity as tossing a coin up into the
air.  I thought people realized that when they learned about the famous
headline 'Dewey (sp) beats Truman'.  That was a result of a telephone poll
when most people who owned telephones were Republicans.  Especially if
only 13 responded to your poll.  
>					orstcs!richardt


Craig Anderson
csanders@ucbvax.Berkeley.ARPA