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(reprise article) By Denis Campbell
Throughout the primaries we heard, “it’s 8:00 pm in the east, polls have closed, CNN can now declare with 1% of the ballots counted, Senator Barack Obama is the winner of the South Carolina Primary.”
99% accuracy. How did they know? Exit polling is part of it. But polling places, early voting [...]
Play at home, amuse your friends. In the true spirit of March Madness brackets destroyed yesterday by Villanova and Kansas. Here is something to replace it.
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