This polling sample is 50% Democrats, 41% Republicans!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/postpoll_090808.html?hpid=topnews
NET LEANED PARTY:
Democrat Republican Independent Other No op.
9/7/08 RV 50 41 7 1 1
Okay, I take back what I said except that my suspicion was correct: it’s a Rat infested poll all right: 50% Democrats, only 41% Republicans. Any poll at this point where the spread is more than 4-6 points (and shrinking fast) should be treated as highly suspect.
The sample was 36D 28R 32I.
Then they got pushed to one party or the other.
However, this was interesting.
This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone September 5-7, 2008, among a random national sample of 1,133 adults and 961 registered voters, including additional interviews with randomly selected African Americans, for a total of 211 black respondents. The additional interviews (commonly referred to as an “oversample”) were completed to ensure there were enough African American respondents for separate analysis;
The sample was 36D 28R 32I.
Then they got pushed to one party or the other.
However, this was interesting.
This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone September 5-7, 2008, among a random national sample of 1,133 adults and 961 registered voters, including additional interviews with randomly selected African Americans, for a total of 211 black respondents. The additional interviews (commonly referred to as an “oversample”) were completed to ensure there were enough African American respondents for separate analysis;