Polls may underestimate Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent, researchers say (Reverse Bradley Effect?)

www.physorg.com ^ | 10/10/2008 | Provided by University of Washington

[InvisibleChurch]

[GnL]

All speculation until the deed is done on Nov 4.

[Ken522]

Dream on, UW!

[sappy]

I would think it was inflated if anything!

[jersey117]

I think they are OVERestimating his support.

[jveritas]

Those people are delusional.

[DJ MacWoW]

This is as bad as the “journalists” claiming that it’s all over and Obama won. Talk about trying to influence an election!

[riverdawg]

This article contradicts evidence discussed in another thread that Obama led substantially in almost every poll taken just prior to the primaries that Hillary subsequently won.

[word_warrior_bob]

Lies and propaganda....again.

Oh yes I’m sure in the South they CAN’T WAIT to vote for 2 Northeastern Liberals not even pretending to be moderates. They are disguising their secret love for the #1 and #3 most liberal members of the senate/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s//s/s/s/

[sarasota]

Please continue to overinflate O’s ego. So his fall will be harder and longer felt.

[Archon of the East]

Please, it was total anti-Hillary onslaught after she looked like an idiot on that immigration question during one the debates.

[kara37]

LOL

[lakeman]

Yeah OK conseratives are under “That One’s” spell and are afraid to say they are voting for him. LOL try again

[Bob J]

Or...

The polls were being weighted in Hillary’s favor.

[mrsmel]

And they are underestimating the effect that PUMAs may have, and blue-collar Dems, among other things. So it's always something, isn't it? We won't know until Nov 4, if then (and taking into account all the voter fraud that will be perpetrated, and how much we can catch in time).

[KoRn]

I wonder what result the “Hussein Effect” will have.

I’m talking about when a voter looks at a ballot and sees the name Hussein. I think that a voter would pause before casting a ballot for someone that has Hussein as part of their name.

[federal]

I guess this is the reason that during the primary elections, Poll after poll would show Zero up on Hillary but when the votes were counted Hillary would win by large numbers.

[StrategicCorporalUSMC]

In a vacuum this *may* be true. Applying scientific principles to a topic such as this without accounting for the voter intimidation at the caucuses, massive fraudulent voter registrations, etc...

November 4th is the only poll that counts.

[johncocktoasten]

This may be the result of having to completely reverse the result of the 3/5ths compromise. See, if you take 1 and add 3/5ths and average that result, you get 4/5ths. So you really must mulitply the 3/5ths by 5/3rds or 1.677% to get back to the 1 man 1 vote.

I think this is how the support is understated. /sarc off