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1. Here we go again, repeating lies.

Sat Apr 27, 2013, 07:08 PM

Apr 2013

90% of America did not speak. This 90% number the media, the senators and the president keep repeating is from a poll surveying 1,772 people. Not 90% of the entire United States population.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes--centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1847

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Here we go again, repeating lies. supernaut Apr 2013 #1

Please, go learn how statistics work before you post again. Salviati Apr 2013 #2

Please, enlighten me supernaut Apr 2013 #5

The point being.. supernaut Apr 2013 #10

What do you think polling companies are paid to do? Salviati Apr 2013 #9

Gotta love kittens Duckhunter935 Apr 2013 #3

Gun nuts are pretty entertaining too. DanTex Apr 2013 #12

Just proof that we live in a tyranny from gun nuts sandy78 Apr 2013 #4

thought this was Duckhunter935 Apr 2013 #6

Aren't you clever. Kingofalldems Apr 2013 #11

name calling Duckhunter935 Apr 2013 #14

We live in a republic, not a democracy davidn3600 Apr 2013 #8

What the polls did NOT show... Honeycombe8 Apr 2013 #15