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Polls of the president over the past year. what it found was that gallup found obama with a lower job approval rating than that of the other top organizations using similar methodologies. he averaged among the top six, 47%. the average with gallup polls, 44.4%. the pollsters said it s because they measure responses from nonwhites differently than other polling organizations. the method of tweaking numbers to account for demographics and account for various groups that make up the country as a whole. here s how it works. say you are polling an area where men and women is split 50-50. 3/4 of your responses come from women on your dave calling. in calculating the results, you would boost the importance of the men s answers and reduce the women s answers to reflect the 50-50 split. they do it for a number of ....

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