riverman wrote:
Man, I hate early overanalysis of elections. I always felt that the
analyses often swayed voters more than the issues.

In this particular one, however, I was too distracted by determining
when they chose to use the spelled-out numbers "three" or when they
chose to use the digital representation "3". Sometimes they even used
both in one sentence: "three in 10".

Aren't there guidelines for this type of stuff?

--riverman


There are guidelines. Typically, you spell out numbers one through nine,
unless they are part of a unit of measure. Numbers 10 and above are
always used as numerals. Hence the three in 10. Numbers are spelled out
at the beginning of a sentence.

Tim Lysyk