What is Digg?Remove
Discover breaking news from Macworld 2009
Digg your favorite stories in Upcoming or check out the most popular ones in the Apple topic.
Related by Keyword 
How are these related stories? Tell us!
- bixby1, on 11/01/2008, -1/+30"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"
There is a part of this quote that has never been more true. These polls are starting to kill me.- jboitnott, on 11/01/2008, -0/+10Many of the people I've talked to say something like: "I don't trust the polls as far as I can throw them." Very good to see that many people feel this way....especially as they hammer us with poll numbers constantly.
- Cancerkitty, on 11/02/2008, -0/+7100% agreed. Polls are so easy to manipulate.
- RadInfinitum, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2^ You better not have polled yourself for that statistic.
- Nattybumpoe, on 11/01/2008, -0/+10Amen, this election is killing me. I just want it to be over, and then we can move on.
- sparsely, on 11/02/2008, -0/+7"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." -Benjamin Disraeli
- Trollbane, on 11/02/2008, -0/+5I've seen that same quote attributed to Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin and Oscar Wilde. Does anyone know who actually said it?
- sparsely, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_deception
Twain did use the quote in Chapters from My Autobiography, but he attributed the phrase to Disraeli.
- doiveo, on 11/02/2008, -0/+7I'm Canadian with no say or direct stake in the election. I don't get canvassed or TV ads and I'M sick of this election! I can't imagine what the average American has endured.
- lekahe, on 11/02/2008, -0/+5I am European and feel just like you!
- kp2575, on 11/02/2008, -0/+575% of people polled things polls are 25% less likely to be accurate when the people polled are polled while watching a stripper on a pole.
Or something
- jboitnott, on 11/01/2008, -0/+10Many of the people I've talked to say something like: "I don't trust the polls as far as I can throw them." Very good to see that many people feel this way....especially as they hammer us with poll numbers constantly.
- pepelu12, on 11/01/2008, -7/+17McCain is fail.
- hardyjennz85, on 11/01/2008, -4/+14We're gonna need an entire Palin bloopers series in its own article.
- louiebaur, on 11/01/2008, -4/+15Nice... Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.... Obama
- Nattybumpoe, on 11/01/2008, -0/+18I like Groucho Marx personally.
- ScottMcIntyre, on 11/02/2008, -0/+10The wisdom of Mark Twain is still relevant, even today: "To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government."
- oboy, on 11/02/2008, -1/+9Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
-- Robert Orben, humorist
Ya, tell that to Kerry and Gore.- gilg, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2Right. And Shimon Peres.
- ikesauto, on 11/02/2008, -0/+6Elections can be so entertaining
- xbanned, on 11/02/2008, -0/+7Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
-- Henry Kissinger
So true. - resolva, on 11/02/2008, -1/+6Ha, what the hell.
- patrickchee, on 11/02/2008, -0/+6"don't boo. vote" obama
- Oztog, on 11/02/2008, -1/+6They missed "Get off my lawn!" - John Mcain
- lifeisgoooooood, on 11/02/2008, -1/+5Drill baby Drill ! ! ! !
- pentupentropy, on 11/02/2008, -0/+5I can't believe there's only 12. Maybe that's all people have enough attention for these days.
- gregkr, on 11/02/2008, -0/+5How about some debate quotes like "There you go again" and "You, sir, are no Jack Kennedy?"
- plimpton777, on 11/02/2008, -0/+4"Restore habeas corpus" -Ron Paul
- MarkusX, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1I'm older than dirt, I've got more scars than Frankenstein, but I've learned a few things along the way.
-- John McCain
Unfortunately, he hasn't learned when to quit.
Digg is coming to a city (and computer) near you! Check out all the details on our 
© Digg Inc. 2009 — Content posted by Digg users is