"Here you will see that they VASTLY oversampled Democrats, and the actual questions asked."
That's how they do it. I worked in media polling for Yankelovich Partners the former polling unit for the CNN Time Magazine poll. The director of the poll is a major Democrat and a major liberal. He never cared that they oversampled Democrats. When I pointed out to him the skew and the need to weight the data to take out the skew, he just waved me off. This is why I don't trust media polls. They're quick and dirty, more interested in getting the results out quick to meet a press deadline than getting it right. These things are best ignored.
It's more than "getting the results out quick" .. it's GETTING THE ANSWER THEY WANT! .. WHICH IS BUSH IS BAD!
I wish somebody would tell these people - Bush isn't running for office again .. so the meaningless polls aren't worth the powder to blow them up.
Can I stop laughing now?
thanks for the info mike. i no longer take these sorts of polls seriously. the real polls are on election day....
if it doesn't rain ;o)