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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 4 Nov 2012

    It's just Math: If two candidates are actually dead-even in votes, each will win about half of all "too-close-to-call" polls.

    12:10 PM - 4 Nov 2012
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      1. Nitin Borwankar‏ @nitin 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson people who consider sending everyone to college to be too elitist have brains that explode when they *hear* the word Math

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      1. James Iry‏ @jamesiry 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson Assuming the polls don't have a statistical bias.

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      1. Michi‏ @cbn2 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson No, the Electoral College just doesn't work that way. Obama's up in states with more EC votes.

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      2. David Randolph‏ @drandolph 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson true but about half of them will be voting for the looser.

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      1. General Fifty Stars‏ @2020GODsVISION 28 Feb 2013
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        @neiltyson TRUTH is CALIF hadONLY counted 2% when MEDIA callin it 4 BO. VOTES called N were NEVER VERIFIED so Captains LIED 4 BO but WE KNEW

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      1. John F. Di Leo‏ @johnfdileo 27 Feb 2013
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        @neiltyson Sadly wrong. If 2 are dead-even in polls, standard institutional vote fraud will always tip the Democrat over the top.

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      1. Paul‏ @RemlePrime 6 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson thanks be to the Mathematics for Math!

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      1. Daulaelman‏ @Daulaelman 6 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson If you could go anywhere in the universe... Where would you go?

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      1. Stephen Matthews‏ @tamuwx 5 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson Not if the polls oversample one side by more than 10%

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      1. Lulu‏ @the_luc 5 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson that may be the math, but the fact is that the only poll that matters is the one on Tuesday.

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      1. algi‏ @Koszper_Gabor 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson No, if it's a systematical mistake. The margin of error means that all polls can err in the same direction.

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      1. Stephen Mekosh‏ @smekosh 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson Oh, you and your "Math" and "facts."

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      1. Carmen Barrasso‏ @Carmenbarrasso 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson not necessarily. You can win 99 polls by 1 and lose 1 by 100

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      1. Marvin Scott Edmonds‏ @Milton_327 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson So are you saying if this election goes to the Supreme Court, they should flip a coin? It comes down to who turns out their vote.

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      1. D. E.‏ @OBI_GUN_KENOBI 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson Dr. Tyson; To what degree do issues like climate change stem cell research and clean energy impact your political choices?

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      1. Meg Parker‏ @TheElfGirl 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson Nate Silver goes into a lot of the math: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/  He's been very accurate in past elections.

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      1. Baka Karasu 烏‏ @BakaKarasu 4 Nov 2012
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        @neiltyson Dunno: think it's math+culture. Even if they are really 'dead-even', the polls may skew L or R due to nonrepresentative sampling.

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