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March 25, 2008

Beware The Tracking Polls

Pollster.com's Mark Blumenthal notes in his column today that reporters would be wise not to give too much weight to Gallup tracking polls. Yesterday's survey showed Barack Obama up one point over Hillary Clinton.

"That one point lead is somewhat apropos, since it is virtually identical to the average of all of Gallup's Daily releases since February 8," Blumenthal writes.

Give it a read ...


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