[Brookhaven]

You’ll hear some critisicm that this is an electronic poll (apparently they’re trying to modernize polling by doing something different).

Bottom line though, this Zogby poll has always been a head of the trend and shows the right direction of what the other polls showed a few days (or weeks later). If it has Cain trending upwards big time, then it’s a good bet the other polls with having him trending upwards big time soon also.

[NoRedTape]

Now.........if Romney would just finally drop-out, we'd have a clear-cut Candidate for the entire GOP.

Go Mr. Cain!!!

[webheart]

You’ll hear some critisicm that this is an electronic poll (apparently they’re trying to modernize polling by doing something different).

It occurs to me that electronic polling might better represent the opinion of the majority. For one, it is not based on a sample which is scientifically, but yet arbitrarily, pre-selected. The pollsters have to make certain assumptions about the people they poll for answers before deciding who to call. They can weight their sample one way or the other, and phrase the questions so as to elicit answers that may come out in agreement with themselves.

Electronic polling is more like real voting: It only includes people who take the effort to respond, just as elections are decided, usually, by actual voters, those that take the time and effort to participate. Admittedly, electronic voting is flawed because people who can't or won't actually vote are able to be counted for the purposes of opinion sampling. Someday there may be some way to electronically check the voter registration status of respondents.

[StAnDeliver]

"You’ll hear some critisicm that this is an electronic poll (apparently they’re trying to modernize polling by doing something different). Bottom line though, this Zogby poll has always been a head of the trend"

You have to be joking, or you know nothing about polling. This is the same poll that had Bachmann the previous runaway, sure-thing, Tea Party saviour at 34% just 3 1/2 months ago. It was bs then, it's bs now.

I won't have Zogby leading conservatives around by the nose. I - will - not - have - it. Cite Rasmussen, cite WSJ/Opinion, cite even CBS...But Zogby is a fraud.

"Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Following an Election Day prediction that Democratic candidate John Kerry would win more than 300 electoral votes and the presidency, one of America's most well known polling firms continued the job Wednesday of explaining its flawed projection.

Shawnta Watson Walcott, communications director for Zogby International, joined a group of liberal Democrats at a faux congressional hearing focused on whether fraud influenced the Nov. 2 (2004) outcome.

"... it has become increasingly clear that this election has produced unprecedented levels of suspicion regarding its outcome, and we join this panel discussion in an attempt to find a resolution to these issues," said Walcott, who represented the firm's president and long time political pollster John Zogby at the forum sponsored by Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee.

On Election Day, Zogby predicted that Kerry would win 311 electoral votes. For much of that afternoon, he also rated the state of Virginia as too close to call. Not only did President Bush end up winning Virginia by 9 percentage points over Kerry, he won 286 electoral votes, over 3.3 million popular vote more than Kerry and, of course, re-election.

But with a Rayburn House Office Building meeting room as the backdrop, Judiciary Committee Democrats, liberal special interest groups and individuals like Rainbow PUSH Coalition founder Jesse Jackson Wednesday alleged that the election had been marred by fraud and malfunctioning voting machines.

Walcott told the group assembled that Zogby International had questions of its own pertaining to the election. -- Zogby Polling Seeks Damage Control After Election Day Flub

[Mouton]

I was polled on this preference.