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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-04 09:58 AM
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10. I've often wondered about that.
If you simply call people in a predetermined area code with certain "desirable" prefixes, it would seem you could engineer whatever results you want. And thus guide public perception using polls. In the interest of saving some credibility you might try to be accurate on the day before the election.

I don't trust them.
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