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To: LS; CatOwner; Wilder Effect; tatown; Antoninus; mathprof

Over here, poll junkies. The current polls are significantly oversampling Democrats, despite ample historical precedent for doing otherwise.


3 posted on 09/24/2008 8:32:20 AM PDT by TonyInOhio (This is no time to go wobbly.)
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To: TonyInOhio

oh oh oh....can you add me to your poll junkies pinging? pretty please?? I love analyzing internals of polls...

and yes, I realize that’s a little odd


6 posted on 09/24/2008 8:38:36 AM PDT by KeatsforFirstDog
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To: TonyInOhio

I learned something last night at a dinner that I probably should have known: Ken Blackwell going into the election was down by 5% to 12%. He lost by 25%. This is clearly the “Wilder Effect.”


7 posted on 09/24/2008 8:39:03 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: TonyInOhio
Thanks Tony LOL. In 2006, the GOP faced their worst year since Watergate, and in the end the DEMS only got a 3% advantage after pollsters said it was going to be 10 to 15%. The reason we lost only 30 House seats instead of the 70 Stuart Rothenberg and Sabato were predicting.

ABC/WAPO 10% DEM
RAS 6% DEM etc...

The reason McCain leads Battleground is that they use the correct sample, 3% DEM. THIS IS ALL A SCAM TO DEFLATE CONSERVATIVES

8 posted on 09/24/2008 8:39:08 AM PDT by Wilder Effect
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To: TonyInOhio

Thanks for posting. Eases my troubled mind a bit.


10 posted on 09/24/2008 8:40:46 AM PDT by RightWingMama
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