[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Cheryl O

[Cheryl O'Grady]

Ed, in fact, internationally (this fact came out during the Orange Revolution) exit polls are considered to be accurate to within .25% (not 25% - one quarter - .25% - one quarter of one point).  The reponse you give is actually the misinformation put out by the republican spin doctors when the exit polls didn't support their results.

Cheryl 

----- Original Message -----
From: "ed kroposki" <ekroposki at charter.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Reply to Cheryl O
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:08:48 -0500

> 
> Cheryl,
> 	Basing any conclusion on exit polls or opinion polls is a complete
> lack of understanding Americans.  When asked who I supported when leaving a
> polling place I and many more like me either decline comment (which poll
> takers do not count) or give an intentionally wrong answer just to screw up
> polls.  Obviously when the votes are counted, it does not come out the way
> the poll takers or mass media wanted.  I suspect that swing vote or
> undecided in the polls are just a bunch of Americans many who regard the
> national liberal media with distain.
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> Addendum:  Here is another interesting topic from Germany:
>    A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services"
> at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under
> laws introduced this year.
> 
> Prostitution was legalized in Germany just over two years ago and brothel
> owners - who must pay tax and employee health insurance - were granted
> access to official databases of jobseekers.
> 
> The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said
> that she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe.
> 
> She received a letter from the job centre telling her that an employer was
> interested in her "profile" and that she should ring them. Only on doing so
> did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realize that
> she was calling a brothel.
> 
> Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work
> for more than a year can be forced to take an available job - including in
> the sex industry - or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German
> unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the
> number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.
> 
> The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds,
> but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As
> a result, job centers must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the
> same way as those looking for a dental nurse.
> 
> 
> 
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