[quote][b]hack[/b] -

Ask the right people and you'll get the answer you want to hear. That's what polls are all about

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Um, no, you're not even close. It was a random telephone poll, not a guy sitting outside the Wal-mart with a clipboard asking questions of "the right people," whatever the hell that means. I agree a robo-poll is not as good as a live one, but the tone of your comment suggests you're not exactly into the nuances of public opinion polling.

@hang em high: 101 percent? Dude, rounding error. Often these will add to 101. Not unusual at all.

Yeah, totally different. Except not.

My wife answered the phone and got this robo-poll. Such polls tend to skew older and more conservative, making the opposition here even more interesting.

I agree, Perno was always a class act and it's unfortunate but not surprising it came to this given the last couple of seasons. Helluva a game Sunday to go out on, though. Good luck, coach, at your next job.

@kaleidoscope.junkie: That was a great, honest moment.

Plus when St. Joseph sells it's property on Prince Avenue, likely to some commercial developer, that'll add a new choke point. Something planners will have to consider. As to Hawthorne, the change never bothered me all that much. Too many nutjobs swerving in and out of lanes before the change.

Yeah, if you're going to point to a website, actually point to a real one. Sheesh.

I'm angered over a lack of literature for the one true deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster. http://www.venganza.org/

@Trip_McNeely: As Joe pointed out above, most news orgs have a policy against reporting suicides unless they happen in a very public place or involve someone of prominence. This is a great outcome. Excellent work by Ofc Cochran.

Hell, if they want piracy, they should raid the entire country of China.

These data confirm earlier data-based estimates, but take care as the ACS is based on self reports of having voted, notorously inflated because people tend to say they voted when they didn't. Still, this fits the data profile emerging from 2012 and if you read the actual report you can tease out some interesting opportunities and challenges for both parties in 2016.

Unemployment among college grads is 3.5 percent (or so, last I looked). That said, many are underemployed.

He spread himself too thin, got sloppy. He's good at his game, arguably the best at media criticism, but try to do too much and you make mistakes. In this case, an embarrassing one.

It was a stupid thing to say, he apologized. Did it really require any more commentary? I read one of his books (yes, he's a conservative, look it up before you blather) and it was for me tough going because it's not my area, and he had a controversial column a few months back that generated some fascinating discussion among economists.

There is a similar but more elaborate piece on this topic in this month's The Atlantic. I highly recommend it. Plus it has stuff about burning ice.

I've never given the name much thought, but "redskins" is kinda bad. I'm a bit baffled by one small methodological issue in the poll. It says 1,004 adults were surveyed with a margin of error of 3.9 percent. By my math, the margin of error based on that many respondents is 3.09 percent. Either the story is wrong on a really small matter, or there's more to the poll sample I don't see. Yeah, stuff like this bothers me.

TMZ no doubt contributed to someone's kid's college fund to get an early copy of the video. I watched it, lost several IQ points I can't afford to lose in the process. Cops hear this kind of blather all the time, even from people who really aren't famous (or connected) but think they are.

On the surface, you'd think Broun gets further marginalized as well known Republicans jump into the race, but his core constituency of the scientifically-challenged may keep things interesting. I could see him in a runoff. We'll know more when a few real polls come out, not the robo-stuff we've seen so far.

Heh, now mine makes no sense. Not that my comments ever make a lot of sense.

@Used2baFreeCountry: Woodstock is 10.2 percent black. I get the racist meaning of the cross burning, of course, but I don't get the significance of the deer meat. Is that a "this could be you" thing, as in dead meat?

I asked a high-ranking scientific expert recently, one who often testifies before Congress (not a UGA person, btw), whether these politicians actually believe the nonsense they spout or whether it's merely playing to a scientifically-challenged base. The answer was depressing. They really believe this crap.

Glad to see the Stones continue this tradition of popping up in small venues where, usually, they play a lot of blues and such.

I watched a chunk of it on TV last night. What an odd game, especially given the UGA season so far. I hope this signals a turnaround, a waking up, or some other good sports cliche.

Excellent.