From a politically-themed e-mail

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 17 19:44:24 UTC 2014


“ 'Within the margin' is pollster-speak for 'statistically tied'.”

Seems too obvious to be called "jargon" or "slang," but,

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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