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Ron Hardin
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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: ``Twice as many than'' |
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WSJ
``Barack Obama holds a 7.3% lead in the Real Clear Politics
average of all polls, but the latest Gallup tracking poll
reveals that there are nearly twice as many undecided voters
this year than there were in the last presidential
election.''
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122411909182439021.html
A semantic ``more''?
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Bart Mathias
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: ``Twice as many than'' |
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Ron Hardin wrote:
[quote]WSJ
``Barack Obama holds a 7.3% lead in the Real Clear Politics
average of all polls, but the latest Gallup tracking poll
reveals that there are nearly twice as many undecided voters
this year than there were in the last presidential
election.''
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122411909182439021.html
A semantic ``more''?
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Must be. And very common, at least for the last 15 or 20 years that it
has been a mild irritant for me.
Bart Mathias |
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