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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Remainders: Missing Margin of Error

I inadvertently left out a statistical caveat to the Franklin & Marshall College Poll in today's story about Sen. Arlen Specter's political challenges. F & M interviewed a subsample of 211 Republicans on some questions, notablyi those about next year's GOP primary for Senate. Results for the subsample are subject to a margin of error of plus or minus 6.7 percentage points.

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