Posted on 10/14/2008 5:32:35 PM PDT by seanrobins
I honestly don't believe that there have been any "undecideds" since the national party conventions. People have long since made up their minds and the only real poll that matters will take place 3 weeks from today.
Regarding your question “can someone tell me why I should care one iota about polls”
It is an age old and proven ploy to discourage people who would otherwise vote for the other candidate. The impact, to those who believe it, is to either stay home on voting day or be one of those who want to be a winner and vote for the reported “obvious” winner. Too many people believe what they read and hear; not everyone but too many.
The pollsters claim it is because there has been an actual spike in Dem registrations this election season.
That is likely due to ACORN.
Another freeper wondered if it didn’t also reflect the result of GOPers crossing over as part of Operation Chaos. Which would be really a funny conclusion to the venture.
“None of the other polls show that big of a swing to the ZerO since the debate. C-BS indeed.”
Battleground shows the same swing as the CBS poll. They had Obama up 3 points on Oct. 8 and now have him up 13.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/RCP_PDF/BG_101408_2-way-ballot-trender.pdf
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html
I am surprised they shot their wad so early with this fake pos. So part of their plan that NBC Nightly News reported it leading their election coverage.
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