Funny you should mention Helms and his various challengers over the years. I had been convinced for months that Bush would win easily, and people were thinking I was nuts. I had to patiently explain how the pollsters back in N.C. always showed Helms' challengers neck-and-neck with him, and he always managed to win easily -- BECAUSE PEOPLE FREAKIN' LIE. Same as on J.D. Power surveys.
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All polling and surveys are a complete joke. It's like calling the metoerology of weather-forecasting a hard "science."
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