I saw this on the AP wire so I was a bit intrigued: "Independents split evenly between Obama and McCain". That was the first I had seen numbers like that and I thought it was a new trend. As I read down the story, it appeared to be a new trend until I hit the last line.
The AP-GfK poll was conducted Sept. 27-30 and included cell and landline telephone interviews with 161 likely independent voters, for whom the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 7.7 percentage points.
That is like saying "I ask the people on my block 2 weeks ago and they were evenly split between Chocolate and Vanilla ice cream even though yesterday it was just reported that Chocolate ice cream make you grow a third eye". The AP is just phoning it in for McCain.
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