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"Glen Bleske"  wrote:
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>My questions are who made these 50 million hits at CNN? And what were >their motivations? 
>
>A little more than 100 million people voted. Clearly, many of the hits >must be from non-voters.

Remember, hits does not equal people.  It only equals the number of
times someone checked the page.

For someone closely watching a specific race, or even someone browsing
through the results through all 50 states could create several hundred
hits themselves... There's not much correlation of hits to people...



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