Posted on 05/17/2010 2:46:31 PM PDT by stillafreemind
There has been much made of this poll. But one has to wonder what Charles Grassley did that made his numbers drop so drastically in two days. The well-known Rasmussen poll, done on 5/3 has Grassley leading Conlin 53% to 40 %. With no stories or scandals hitting the air ways or newspapers, it is hard to feature a loss of 4% in two days for Grassley.
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“With no stories or scandals hitting the air ways or newspapers, it is hard to feature a loss of 4% in two days for Grassley.”
If the above is true, than a 4% change in 2 days is nothing more than a sample variance within the margin of error. It doesn’t mean anything.
I would be excited if it were a conservative primary opponent catching up to him. This is the media’s way of trying to present this year as antiincumbent rather than anti liberal, whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican.
Rasmussen carefully screens for likely voters. Democrat polls ask anyone who will answer a phone. Different groups.
What did Conlin do to merit the mug shot?
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...it is hard to feature a loss of 4% in two days for Grassley.
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Margin of error?
I won’t trash the journalist.
I only took two statistics/probability classes in college and had to
work hard to wrap my mind around some concepts/tests.
Suprisingly, some of the engineers taking that class seemed to be
struggling as much as myself.
drunk driving
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