Data Troubles: Explaining Discrepancies between Official Votes and Exit Polls in the 2004 Presidential Election
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Older voters and the 2004 election.
For several decades, candidates in U.S. presidential election campaigns have articulated policy issues designed to appeal to older Americans. However, exit-poll data have consistently shown that older people have distributed their votes among presidential candidates in roughly the same proportions as the electorate as a whole, favoring the winner of the popular vote. This happened again in 2004...
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تاریخ انتشار 2006