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1 posted on 10/31/2008 7:22:56 AM PDT by Alvin Poon
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What are u talking about ? There’s a thread here this AM from 11/2/2000 that Gore had a 4 point lead in FL ? And countless others. It is well known that Lefty’s always overpoll.


2 posted on 10/31/2008 7:25:10 AM PDT by major-pelham
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True. But the only accurate polls will be the ones that come out on Monday. Prior to that they are designed to make news and suppress GOP turnout. We will have to wait until Monday to see what they really think.

Even then there have been exceptions to the rule. Most obvious was the 1980 Reagan landslide, totally missed by pollsters. The other was Gore in 2000 and in some cases Kerry in 2004. I think as the number of polls has grown and the inventions of cell phones and early voting polling is becoming less accurate not more.

That said, McCain does have a hill to climb over the next four days.


5 posted on 10/31/2008 7:26:56 AM PDT by Patrick1
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Hmmm... possible "concern troll" here.

Nevertheless... there are a couple of things to consider:

  1. The final polls on Monday will likely show a tighter race. The pollsters will want to be within the margin of error for their credibility. Nevertheless, they still will, as they always do, overestimate Democrat support (but trying to keep it within MOE, at least).
  2. Turnout models -- the "horserace" numbers are hogwash because they're making unsupported assumptions as to party ID on turnout. There is no historical or current basis to be sampling Democrats in the +6 to +15 range that these polls are using.

6 posted on 10/31/2008 7:27:20 AM PDT by kevkrom (If Obama promises to tax your neighbor to give to you, what's he promising your neighbor?)
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I did research on the 2000 and the 2004 elections polls from to weeks before the election up to the election...Gore maintained a 4-5 pt lead up to the last day....LOST

Kerry maintained a 4-7 pt lead up to the end....LOST...

Maybe you need to look at ALL the polls for those years and do the avg....


7 posted on 10/31/2008 7:27:51 AM PDT by Boonie
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Evidence please or GTFO. (IBTZ?)


8 posted on 10/31/2008 7:28:05 AM PDT by thecabal (I AM JOE)
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Acorn, PUMA, Youth votes.

Acorn ginned up faux new registrants creating a false data set that pollsters have not discounted.

Many Hillary supporters are convinced Obama stole the nomination and are working from inside to defeat him, including lying to pollsters.

The youth vote turnout was factored to high by pollsters and this is born out by statistics from early voting.

9 posted on 10/31/2008 7:28:09 AM PDT by AU72
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Poll Math (Fun with Zogby)
10 posted on 10/31/2008 7:28:16 AM PDT by PhilosopherStones
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No. It’s a secret.


11 posted on 10/31/2008 7:28:45 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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[The polls taken right before the last 2 presidential elections have been extremely accurate.]

Which is why we have seen a HUGE tightening of the polls the last few days!!!

MCCAIN/PALIN have got it in the bag! GOP turnout will be massive and Democrat turnout disappointing! Not to mention the PUMAs that will be voting MAC!!

The polls are over sampling Rats based on fake Rat voter registration numbers and operation chaos voters!


12 posted on 10/31/2008 7:29:27 AM PDT by KansasGirl (READ MY LIPSTICK, OBAMA IS JUST CREEPY!)
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Also, undecided voters will break 4:1 for McCain!


15 posted on 10/31/2008 7:29:59 AM PDT by KansasGirl (READ MY LIPSTICK, OBAMA IS JUST CREEPY!)
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Comanche Indian ... Right?


16 posted on 10/31/2008 7:31:33 AM PDT by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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The electoral college is what matters.

If McCain is within 2-3 points nationally, I think he has a good chance at winning.

A majority of the states we need to win, including a blue state (Pennsylvania and I believe New Hampshire), are within the margin of error, so it is doable with a great GOTV effort.

Also there was article here a few weeks back that showed how state polling last election was way off.

We can win this!


17 posted on 10/31/2008 7:31:34 AM PDT by babydubya1981 (Homeschooling Moms for McCain/Palin 08)
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Sad to say that those polls did not have the Democrats oversampled the way these do.

We are seeing Democrats getting +7,+5,+10 etc, when in the 2004 election, they were essentially equal.

18 posted on 10/31/2008 7:31:57 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord-(Jer.22:29))
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Your info is so wrong. Apparently you haven’t read the polls for the primaries, nor did you see the MSM polls that showed Kerry ahead not only in FL, but nationally on the Friday before the election. You appear to be an Obama plant.


19 posted on 10/31/2008 7:32:18 AM PDT by Beeman
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The polls are right if you believe that there will be 7% to 12% more democrats voting this year than Republicans. In 2004 same number of democrats and Republicans voted. Since 1972 the democrats have never had more than 4% advantage over Republicans in party ID on elections day.

The state polls are right if you believe that since 2004 and 2006 the democrats suddenly outnumbered the Republicans in red states such as Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina. In some of these state the Republicans has up to 5 points party ID advantage and now the polls are used with 10 or even 15 points democrats party ID advantage. The polls are right if you believe that it is OK for a pollster to call more people from blue counties than red counties.

These insanely biased polls are being used this year by Obama and the media as the single most important weapon to depress the Republican turnout.

When you vote, you beat these insanely biased polls. Go and vote, ask you family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to vote for McCain/Palin.

We Vote We Win.

20 posted on 10/31/2008 7:34:24 AM PDT by jveritas
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Just because I’m bored, I have to ask: Did you bother checking the voter affiliation percentages of those polls from 2004 and comparing them with the current batch?

I doubt it. If you did, you’d realize that many of the pollsters are modeling their affiliation numbers in anticipation of Dem turnout overwhelming Republicans. So far in early voting, that assumption appears *wrong*.


21 posted on 10/31/2008 7:34:38 AM PDT by VOR78
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Your attempt (trolling) is absolutely pitiful.

We used to get a better class of trolls that were fairly clever but your post looks like it was prepared by:


23 posted on 10/31/2008 7:35:09 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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The poster has a point regarding some pre election polls in the past, but I recall that republicans tend to do much better than most pre elect polls. The failure of the exit polls is icing on teh cake. That SHOULD be the most accurate because it is of the actual people who vote right after they vote. Yet everyone thought Kerry ws winning a landslide and he wasn’t.

PLUS in a close election no one really predicts or controls in advance who votes or how they vote in REALITY. It’s like the potential for any sports upset - you have to actually play the game.


24 posted on 10/31/2008 7:35:28 AM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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I don’t recall your name from past discussions on this forum but I cannot help but note that the name has a certain tang to it. We seldom see such effrontery in a troll.


25 posted on 10/31/2008 7:35:33 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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I don’t recall your name from past discussions on this forum but I cannot help but note that the name has a certain tang to it. We seldom see such effrontery in a troll.


26 posted on 10/31/2008 7:36:02 AM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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