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To: DrHannibalLecter
I thought they have a poll on their web page

McCain is losing support?

2 posted on 10/17/2008 7:51:28 AM PDT by scooby321 (Cai)
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To: scooby321

I saw this on Drudge, I thought it was good news, but then I am not sure if we can trust any polls. I think we have to trust that the American people are not so dumb to actually vote for a Communist, but then again I have seen many dumb people lately.


5 posted on 10/17/2008 7:52:54 AM PDT by ohiogrammy
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To: scooby321

Fauxbama is done folks, it was never close.

The polls will start to fix their sampling problems and McCain clearly has momentum coming out of the third debate and as long as he stays on message and keeps hittin Fauxbama... its over.

Plumber Joe is now being attacked by the liberals like he’s the anti-christ, and just like they did to Palin they are going to give him another 2-3 points in the polls and average folks get disgusted by their behaviors.

Politics is a game you play to the bell, and Fauxbama failed to close the deal, you are going to see those undecideds and there are a big percentage of them even in the cooked polls, break for McCain. When you break late, you break for known entities, not for unknowns. If you were going to break for an unknown you would have already done it.

McCain’s re-energized his base and Joe the plumber once again exposed the truth about the media and fauxbama.

Fauxbama cannot win with an energized republican base... period. The only way he could ever win would be if republican’s stayed home because they were dejected, in large numbers... STAY POSITIVE FOLKS... Get out to vote, make sure others you know do to.


27 posted on 10/17/2008 8:07:01 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: scooby321

McCain approval goes down while race tightens, AP Bizarro polling indicates.


55 posted on 10/17/2008 8:26:56 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: scooby321
It's a worthless poll. Read the methodology from the polling organization itself:

The survey was conducted using the web-enabled KnowledgePanelSM, a probability-based Panel designed to be representative of the U.S. population. Initially, participants are chosen scientifically by a random selection of telephone numbers. Persons in selected households are then invited by telephone to participate in the webenabled KnowledgePanelSM. For those who agree to participate, but do not already have Internet access, Knowledge Networks provides at no cost an Internet appliance and Internet service connection. People who already have computers and Internet service are permitted to participate using their own equipment. Panelists then receive unique log-in information for accessing surveys online, and then are sent emails three to four times a month inviting them to participate in research. More technical information is available at http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp/reviewer-info.html.

The biases built right into this methodology are staggering. Old people, disabled people, poor people, those without landline phones, those who hate technology, those who don't have the time (perhaps they're actually working for a living)... The list goes on and on and on.

And here's the kicker: it consists of 873 Democrats and 650 Republicans. If that ain't a bias then nothing is.

Don't waste your time or your emotion being either encouraged or discouraged by this poll. It is utterly worthless.

119 posted on 10/17/2008 2:04:41 PM PDT by StonyMan451
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