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To: ambrose

Why is Gallup showing such a wide margin compared to other polls showing a dead-even race?


9 posted on 10/20/2004 5:44:52 PM PDT by etradervic (GLOBAL TEST? Kerry can't even pass the SMELL TEST.)
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To: etradervic
Why is Gallup showing such a wide margin compared to other polls showing a dead-even race?

Because Gallup is a good pollster and the others are biased, poll on weekends, use bad methodology, etc., etc. ;)

11 posted on 10/20/2004 5:45:55 PM PDT by ambrose (http://www.swiftvets.com)
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To: etradervic
Why is Gallup showing such a wide margin compared to other polls showing a dead-even race?

Gallup uses a multi step process to filter out the 'real' voters - you need to pass several levels of questions to be a 'likely' voter ...

17 posted on 10/20/2004 5:47:14 PM PDT by Bill Buckner ("I got it, it's all mine !!!")
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To: etradervic

Why is Gallup showing such a wide margin compared to other polls showing a dead-even race?



Because they're right?


20 posted on 10/20/2004 5:47:28 PM PDT by The Hollywood Conservative
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To: etradervic

The other polls are biased hacks. Thats the honest truth too.


139 posted on 10/20/2004 7:05:30 PM PDT by BoBToMatoE
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To: etradervic
Why is Gallup showing such a wide margin compared to other polls showing a dead-even race?

No idea. Rasmussen/Zogby and some others will always show a close race because he weights self reported party identification back to 2000 levels. Gallup does not. Gallup weights according to a host of demographics but not party ID. Which is right? I think we will know in a couple of weeks.

175 posted on 10/20/2004 9:11:03 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds, a pessimist fears this is true.)
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