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To: kabar

I noticed in Rasmmussen polls that Obama does really well over weekends.. Alot of conservatives are out on weekends so it is probably harder to poll them..


19 posted on 08/27/2012 7:00:41 AM PDT by scbison
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To: scbison
I noticed in Rasmmussen polls that Obama does really well over weekends.. Alot of conservatives are out on weekends so it is probably harder to poll them..

True, but Obama hasn't polled this well since May

29 posted on 08/27/2012 7:03:43 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama, you're going down in November.)
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To: scbison

But I’ve also been told on FreeRepublic that polls during the week are no good because conservatives are out working. So either all polls are bogus (possible) or there are a lot of Freepers who are in denial about the large dumbass Democrat voting block in this country.


30 posted on 08/27/2012 7:04:10 AM PDT by GnL
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To: scbison
I noticed in Rasmmussen polls that Obama does really well over weekends.. Alot of conservatives are out on weekends so it is probably harder to poll them..

I really don't see why polling more or less Republicans on weekends would make any difference whatsoever in the poll results. Rasmussen has set his turnout model at something like R+1 and so there are going to be more R votes in the mix than D votes by one percentage point, no matter how many Republicans vs Democrats answer the phone.

What really matters in the poll is how many Dems are voting for Romney and how many Republicans are voting for Obama. That's what Rasmussen is looking for in his polling (plus the split for a few other demographic categories). Although I'm betting that the D vote for Obama and R vote for Romney is in the high 80's to low 90's there will be a statistical fluctuation in those values. That's the noise we see in all the polling at least for those pollsters who operate with a consistent turnout model and that would include Rasmussen.

64 posted on 08/27/2012 7:26:04 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (.)
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