This is on a website RIGHT NOW…www.wtvo.com. So, they have an arrow indicator that the D wins…but is 3% DOWN…how does this work?
Judy Baar-Topinka (R) 569,719 46% > Rod Blagojevich (D) 542,936 43% Rich Whitney (G) 139,378 11%
This is on a website RIGHT NOW…www.wtvo.com. So, they have an arrow indicator that the D wins…but is 3% DOWN…how does this work?
Judy Baar-Topinka (R) 569,719 46% > Rod Blagojevich (D) 542,936 43% Rich Whitney (G) 139,378 11%
It works because the 95% confidence interval for that proportion is less than two tenths of a percent. So the 3% difference 15x the width of the confidence interval.
edit: They are calling it for the Dem when the Rep is ahead? Either there is an error in the attribution or they are going WAY out on a limb based on the voting habits of precincts still out.
OR, that is simply a greater than sign. As in, 46% is greater than 43%?
You call this error proof that the media is biased. I went to a few other sites CNN and Chicago Tribune which were correct and did’t predict anything until about midnight.
Nah, this doesn’t show anything. Go to mrc.org and see how much info daily they collect.
I can’t speak for others, but it’s not that their biased so much that pisses me off, because everyone has them, it’s that they just won’t admit it. I disagree with pretty much everything the lefties on here say, but I respect the fact they are very upfront about the fact they are lefties. They don’t try to hide behind some “onjective observer” tag, and then slant things their way.
Can’t say the same for the media.
The only proof here is that you don’t know what you are talking about. The predictions are based on exit polls and other demographics. In this case, it’s likely that the early returns were in districts in which Topinka was expected to get a lot of votes (like rural areas, which often post returns before urban areas); perhaps she underperformed in those areas, and didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of picking up the needed votes in areas that were weak for her. Of course, Blago won 49% to 40%.
This is on a website RIGHT NOW…www.wtvo.com. So, they have an arrow indicator that the D wins…but is 3% DOWN…how does this work?
Judy Baar-Topinka (R) 569,719 46% > Rod Blagojevich (D) 542,936 43% Rich Whitney (G) 139,378 11%
LOL. In some circles that “arrow indicator” is called greater than sign.
As for the media bias, HA HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHHAAAAA
You miss that day in second grade math where they introduced the ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ signs?
46% is greater than 43% you dolt.
I think this is PROOF that conservatives are idiots.
Yeah and that famous Fox liberal media icon Bill Kristol was last night calling Missouri for McCaskill with Talent ahead by 7% and 70% of the precincts in.
Go learn something about elections and counts and then come back to us with your conspiracy theories.