On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 07:10:48PM +1000, Andrew Paul wrote: > Our recent election turned out to be a mini-landslide for the > incumbent conservative Liberal party. Newspaper headlines on the > morning of the poll were still calling it a 50/50 race, based on some > professional polls.
What was the margin of error of the poll? Quantify your "landslided", how much did the winner get? > I was wondering if the public may have been clever enough to have been > a bit mischievous during the polling, by making it appear closer, they > may well have squeezed another billion or two out of our formerly > stingy PM, Before I were to consider this rather unlikely possibility, I would first consider the possibility that the election was rigged. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
