Historic Presidential Election Winds Down
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › November 03, 2008
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WASHINGTON -- Voting for president and having your ballot be the deciding one cast -- statistically, that is like trying to hit the lottery. The odds for the average person are 60 million to 1 against it, a study shows.
In some states, the odds of being the vote that tips the election to your candidate are much better. In others they are astronomically worse. Utah is among the 20 states with odds of worse than 1 in a billion.See the full content of this document
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Historic Presidential Election Winds Down
The study by three prominent statisticians used millions of com-
puter runs of polling data to examine the likelihood that a single vote will carry a state and...See the full content of this document
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