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When it Comes to Election 2012, Should We Pay Attention to the Gallup Poll Results

Gallup poll results always dominate news cycles, but how much information is provided by it "as opposed to all the other state and national surveys"? It turns out not much. The Gallup poll only "accounts for 5 or 10 percent of the information that an election analyst should evaluate on a given day."