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1900 is too low a number to sample. And there is no mention as to whether that 1900 is actually random enough. I doubt this statistic.

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For your information, about all polls are done on about 1000 people (slightly less to slightly more). You need to poll a lot more people to reduce significantly the statistical error level.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error

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