MORE FUN WITH POLLING….Daniel Drezner points to a Zogby poll showing that John Edwards has “surged” into second place with support from 9% of likely Democratic voters. But considering that the poll has a statistical error of ?5%, says Drezner, Zogby’s breathless prose probably means that “some public relations flack had way too many lattes before writing that.”
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