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Pollster.com: No Matter How You Slice It, Brown Up Between 4 and 11

9:42 AM, Jan 18, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM
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Beware of overconfidence, but had to share this striking paragraph from Pollster. For what it's worth, Democratic sources are telling ABC that Coakley's internals showed her up by 2 last night.

Pollster.com describes its mission as summarizing "the trends as best we can, without partisan favor," and follows with this summary:

If you do that, we get a 8.8 point Brown lead.

Perhaps you only trust non-partisan polls. Then the Brown lead is 6.8 points.Maybe you are a Dem, who doesn't trust the Republican pollsters. Then Brown leads by 6.5 points.Or you are a Dem who doesn't trust the non-partisan pollsters either and who does believe in the leaks from the Coakley campaign. Then Brown's lead is 3.8 points. (This is the only estimate that includes the leaks.)Or you are a Rep who trusts GOP and nonpartisan polls only. Then Brown leads by 11.3. (There aren't enough Rep polls to run a Rep only estimate to parallel the Dem only, but I'd think an 11 point lead would be satisfying enough for Reps.)

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