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Who nailed the election results? Automated pollsters.

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Posted Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, at 5:46 PM

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Correction, Dec. 20. 2004: Dec. 11, after we had calculated and published pollsters' error averages using the spread method, Ohio certified a revised vote count that lowered Bush's vote share in that state from 51.0 to 50.9 and raised Kerry's vote share from 48.5 to 48.8. Accordingly, we have recalculated all the numbers using both methods. The recalculation eliminated Rasmussen's advantage over Mason-Dixon using the spread method, producing a tie.

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