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From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
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Subject: Re: Projecting winners in elections
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 12:28:11 EST
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The constitutional right to free speech is not necessarily unlimited. 
When it conflicts with elections, it may be constitutional to suspend
it temporarily.  We'll see.

You need only a very small sample, say a few thousand people chosen
in a way that matches the national demographics, to get the results
in advance.

In fact, when was the last time a national election was decided on
election day anyway.  I don't remember one.  They usually knew weeks
ahead who would win, by the same polling process.