Not surprising that Kerry would get some kind of bounce from the debate. W looked tired and off his game. There are two more to go.
BTW, the folks at DU are talking about several of them infiltrating here as Republicans. As the rest of the election plays out, lets keep our eyes out for them.
I agree that Newsweek tweaked the numbers some bit ...and over-sampled Dem's -
However, CoexerJ145, you need to stay consistent. I have lurked on here for a long time and just in the past two months you were suggesting that perhaps the Newsweek polls out then (showing GWB up) were a TRUE reflection and they were just picking up surging GOP type attitudes across the Country and thus this was accurate then in the oversampling of Republicans being done by Newsweek-
Yet, now you claim it isn't right to tweak with the numbers? Odd. Stay consistent.
Newsweek polls are junk. They are not a polling company, they poll for news.
But you seem to tout any poll that shows GW up regardless if it makes sense to our not.
Then when others use the same polls you once touted you run to your silly "troll" defense.
While I think this is somewhat true - it does appear through the great work of DVWJR (here on freerepublic) that while there was some adjustments done by Newsweek....it was no where near to the level that some where suggesting on here...
Also it appears post-debate more people are identifying themselves with DEM's - thus the uptick in their poll sample.
Coexerj145, you routinely suggested in the past 6 weeks it was perfectly fine for polls to show somewhat of an oversample of republicans precisely on this premise that more and more people were identifying themselves as Republicans.
Well, logic says that premise can run both ways then.
That is why you need to be careful and not just tout any poll when it is convenient for you.
The fact is when polls were showing samples of 38R - 34D this was a bad poll (even with it showing GW up).
The breakdown on election day will be around 40D-37 or 38R. (History suggest we will not see a voter turnout showing more Republicans than Democrats).