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To: Windflier

All the polls report the same results.

We have 3 options:

1) All the pollsters are in the tank for Obama and skewing their results.

2) All the pollsters are innocently wrong.

3) All the pollsters (collectively) are approximately correct.

Really: which do you think is most likely?

Myself, I vote for #3.


17 posted on 11/01/2008 11:19:59 PM PDT by cacoethes_resipisco
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To: cacoethes_resipisco
Myself, I vote for #3.

You obviously haven't studied many of the threads on the blatant polling bias around here lately.

Nor, does it appear that you've looked around the conservative blogosphere for informative articles on the 2008 polling, either (there are a ton of them out there).

My (more informed) choice is for:

1) All the pollsters are in the tank for Obama and skewing their results.

24 posted on 11/01/2008 11:29:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: cacoethes_resipisco
All the pollsters (collectively) are approximately correct.

If the pollsters are correct and there are suddenly 9%+ more Democrats than two years ago and the undecided and the 80% that hang up when they try to poll them are not a factor, then we are indeed hosed. However, even the pollsters are starting to sing a different tune now that their reputation will be hosed as well if they don't present a more accurate picture just before the election. This day in 2004 had Kerry up about as much and in many of the same states. I'm so glad that President Kerry is not running this time.

28 posted on 11/01/2008 11:31:45 PM PDT by Ingtar (Go Palin! And the white-haired guy too, I suppose. '08)
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To: cacoethes_resipisco

Yes, of course, the polls were correct last time..

Er, well they were right the time before that..

Umm, well, we should trust them this time anyway.

/s


40 posted on 11/02/2008 1:20:33 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: cacoethes_resipisco
2) All the pollsters are innocently wrong.

More a victim of their own decided upon flawed process.

1. ACORN floods the states with Democrat registrations so pollsters "adjust" for the demographics based on registrations. Geee... that couldn't be one of the reasons ACORN did what they did could it?

2. Those with only cell phone numbers and no land lines cannot be reached. I know many like this and they are not Democrats by a huge margin.

Create the loop for a self fulfilling "prophecy", is the hope.

41 posted on 11/02/2008 1:48:02 AM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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