The Gallup organization on Tuesday defended its polling of the 2012 presidential election in a memo posted on its website. Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup and author of the memo, argued that the organization’s final estimate of the national popular vote showing Mitt Romney with 50 percent to President Barack Obama’s 49 percent was “well within the statistical margin of error.”
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