[stockstrader]

The fact remains that, although any poll by itself is distorted by inherent bias of the organization taking it, if you aggregate all the polls--you DO get a fairly accurate picture.

I use www.realclearpolitics.com to get an accurate picture of what the American people think. During the last election--if you took the AGGREGATION of ALL the polls listed on that site--you got the EXACT percentage margin by which President Bush won!!

So when people cite any particular one poll, I always take that with a grain of salt. However, if the average of ALL polls agree with that poll--then you cannot ignore it. Hence, the incredibly low approval rating of the President are not to be dismissed--as all polls taken together DO show that he (and the entire Republican Party in the next election) have a major problem.

[Jameison]

"The fact remains that, although any poll by itself is distorted by inherent bias of the organization taking it, if you aggregate all the polls--you DO get a fairly accurate picture."

Aggregating lots of over 90% anti-Bush biased polls, turns round and gives you an accurate poll?

Ooookey.



"I use www.realclearpolitics.com to get an accurate picture of what the American people think. During the last election--if you took the AGGREGATION of ALL the polls listed on that site--you got the EXACT percentage margin by which President Bush won!!"

I use realclearpolitics too
In fact used it all the time during the 2004 presidential election campaign.

One thing I noticed; Hanoi John Kerry was ahead (by quite significant margins too, in some cases) for most of 2004
In fact by this time in 2004 old Hanoi John was ahead on realclearpolitics.
He ended up losing.