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25 Post author: satt 20 September 2014 03:39PM

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Comment author: Prismattic 21 September 2014 03:38:38AM 1 point [-]

As I have mentioned before the polling data on partisan affiliation is worthless, because most so-called independents are lying about their actual behavior.

Comment author: satt 21 September 2014 03:10:50PM 2 points [-]

I agree that "independent" poorly characterizes the behaviour of most self-identified "independents", but it doesn't follow that "the polling data on partisan affiliation is worthless". Here comes the ROT-13.

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