Spinning Poll Numbers

Spinning Poll Numbers

Am I missing something here or does a 12% difference in this poll not seem terribly large? Seems to me that having 69% of 18-29 year-olds plugged in to the political news is a GOOD thing. I would have guessed that it was much lower than that.

And if you add in the margin of error. the difference could be as small as 2%. (Or as large as 22%). Still, overall, this seems to me to be a good thing.

CNN.com - Poll: Young not in step with 30-plus crowd - Oct. 29, 2003

While 69 percent of Americans between 18 and 29 said they follow politics, 81 percent 30 and older said they do.

CNN's 'Crossfire' co-host Paul Begala said: 'If ignorance is bliss, then young voters are the happiest folks in America.

'One of the things that comes out of the CNN poll here is that they are three times less likely than their older peers to be plugged into issues and ideas,' he said. 'They are our future, and they are hopelessly ill-informed.'