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7 months ago

There has been quite a bit of speculation this week over that perennial we enjoy here at Pollster.com: Why are the polls so divergent? In the last week or so, we have had national polls showing everything from a dead even race (Gallup Daily) to a 15 point Obama lead (Newsweek) and a half-dozen or so results in between. Here are three more sets of reactions and analyses from pollsters themselves: Los Angeles Times pollster Susan Pinkus, as quoted in a blog item from the Times' Don...

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