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*HunnyBunny* · July 25th, 2004, 10:52 AM

From what I've read in the news it was this:
a voters focus group who were to discuss the 2004 presidential election. Apparently some firm called the Hart Research selected 12 undecided voters from central Ohio to discuss the issues and candidates in this presidential election.

This was the latest in a series of focus group discussions with voters in KEY states (oh I hate that term). These sessions are designed to ASSESS how voters about the campaign and the candidates.

Afterwards the national political reporters covering the campaign joined Mr. Hart to ANALYZE (that’s scary what will they do with their finding?) the discussion. The reporters were watching through 1 way glass in the adjoining room during the discussions.

Total political propaganda farming and data that is rubbish. Only one guy kept reiterating he was actually UNDECIDED. The rest acted like they were just IGNORANT. The research group must have felt they had a good cross section of people??
WTF. They were all white about 40 yrs old (Ok, one guy was not..)?????? BUT, Last time I checked, that’s not an actual scientific cross section of “AMERICA”

[ July 25, 2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: *HunnyBunny* ]

July 25th, 2004, 10:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
HunnyBunny Started: 7/16/04 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: WA Posts: 42 Lost Weight: 252 Current Weight: 260 Goal Weight: 150	From what I've read in the news it was this: a voters focus group who were to discuss the 2004 presidential election. Apparently some firm called the Hart Research selected 12 undecided voters from central Ohio to discuss the issues and candidates in this presidential election. This was the latest in a series of focus group discussions with voters in KEY states (oh I hate that term). These sessions are designed to ASSESS how voters about the campaign and the candidates. Afterwards the national political reporters covering the campaign joined Mr. Hart to ANALYZE (that’s scary what will they do with their finding?) the discussion. The reporters were watching through 1 way glass in the adjoining room during the discussions. Total political propaganda farming and data that is rubbish. Only one guy kept reiterating he was actually UNDECIDED. The rest acted like they were just IGNORANT. The research group must have felt they had a good cross section of people?? WTF. They were all white about 40 yrs old (Ok, one guy was not..)?????? BUT, Last time I checked, that’s not an actual scientific cross section of “AMERICA” [ July 25, 2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: HunnyBunny ] [HT: 5.5.5] [SW: 260] [CW: 252] [GW: 140-150]