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To: koan who wrote (25322)	8/28/2012 3:09:17 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

No, the point is we were only talking about who scientists would vote for not all independents.By random I mean you can use non scientists.If I went to a Catholic church and asked how many Catholics lean Democratic, then I would get that demographic. Same thing.Which is what we were talking about. I assure you that your logic is flawed. But let's give another example. If you go to a union meeting of mine workers and they are polled as to whether they lean democrat or republican, you would get a result that is not a representative of all mine workers. If however, you poll both union and non-union mine workers randomly, you will have a better chance of finding a representative sample. The fact that all of the scientists polled were members of a specific (liberal) association, removes any randomness from the polling.