Article updated: 11/1/2012 10:43 AM

Polls giving partisans lots of room to argue

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters, including one wearing an elephant hat, left, as he campaigns at Integrity Windows in Roanoke, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012.

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Don't like the latest poll numbers on the presidential race? Just wait. More are coming — probably before you can say "margin of sampling error." Regardless of what any given poll says, it's likely that someone — a campaign, an interest group, a political party or a rival polling operation — will argue that the survey is invalid at the same time someone else argues that it's significant.