http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/03/03/voting-and-sex-again/ Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:05:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/03/03/voting-and-sex-again/comment-page-1/#comment-325 ted Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:05:00 +0000 http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2008/03/03/voting-and-sex-again/#comment-325 Oh, I totally agree that voting is like sex, and condom usage, and so on. And that explains discrepancies in pre- and post-vote polls. But polls taken on the same day in the same state with wildly divergent results makes you go Hmmm, as C+C would say. It means, I think, that the pollsters are using very different methodologies. Which is confusing making for the political junkie. Oh, I totally agree that voting is like sex, and condom usage, and so on. And that explains discrepancies in pre- and post-vote polls. But polls taken on the same day in the same state with wildly divergent results makes you go Hmmm, as C+C would say. It means, I think, that the pollsters are using very different methodologies. Which is confusing making for the political junkie.

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