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Scott PowersOctober 22, 2018

Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson are again in a dead-heat in Florida’s U.S. Senate election contest, according to the latest survey from St. Pete Polls, with each drawing just over 48 percent. Scott has a slight edge in the poll when broken down into tenths, 48.6 percent to 48.3 percent, […]

Jim RosicaOctober 8, 2018

A new poll shows “a narrow lead” for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum over his Republican counterpart, Ron DeSantis. But the poll, by the Florida Southern College Center for Polling and Policy Research, has a roughly 4½-point margin of error, and Gillum’s lead is just over 3 points. Gillum received just over 47 percent support, compared […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 21, 2014

Second in a series. Wanna sound smart? Ask your pollster, “So what’s the margin of error?” Wanna sound really smart. Don’t ask it. While there are entire courses dedicated to what are known as bell curve or parametric statistics and you can learn about smart sounding things like random distribution, confidence levels, and standard deviations […]

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