Posted on 02/06/2008 5:12:18 PM PST by LdSentinal
On the Republican side, the final Zogby poll showed former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney with a growing lead and 40 percent of the vote, followed by Sen. John McCain at 33 percent.
But once the votes started being tabulated Romney was actually substantially behind McCain, who appears on his way to nearly sweeping the state's 170 election delegates.
Current balloting results show McCain with 42.1 percent of the vote and Romney with 33.9 percent.
That, along with other wildly inaccurate pre-election polls, caused GOP strategist and Romney adviser Rob Stutzman to tell The Bee's Amy Chance on Tuesday night, "Kill the pollsters."
On the Democratic side, Zogby didn't fare much better, predicting a rout by Sen. Barack Obama of Sen. Hillary Clinton by 16 points.
There was a rout. But it was Clinton that won by 10 points, 52 percent to 42 percent, not Obama.
John Zogby is blaming sampling error. You think?
I find it interesting and satisfying that Survey USA got California's Dem race exactly race. It has robots poll voters. There's no intrinsic reason why robo-calls should be less accurate than human-call polls, especially given all the parlor guessing games about why people might lie to their interviewers. But other pollsters scorn them, and the media often go along -- without looking at the actual records of robo vs. regular.
Pre-2000 zogby was pretty much the top dog, but he developed a terminal case of BDS and his polls have been garbage ever since.
I doubt that even the libs give him credit anymore...
Arab countries can't make anything! The Arab world has a GDP one twentieth of the USA with about the same population. Remove oil and it gets ugly quickly. Apparently, Taiwan has no problem making Nazi sauce for Arab consumption.
You're joking, right?
Please tell me you're joking!
(I didn't see any "/sarc" tag...)
That’s a left-facing swastika — probably Buddhist. The Nasty’s symbol is right-facing (and tilted).
It was the best nazi sauce gif available! - lol
Rakshasa
59 posted on 02/03/2008 10:15:26 AM EST by BluH2o
It's all so predictable.
Zogby is little more than an Arab with an AGENDA.....
His record for accuracy is no better than a monkey throwing feces at a multiple choice chart on the wall....
I can’t tell you how much I hate all these polls.
There were many Republicans who couldn’t vote because their affiliation was switched without their consent. Maybe Zogby was actually right but reality made a left turn.
I can’t trust Zogby because he was always a racist Arabist.
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