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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Simply put, a “registered voters” poll is completely worthless. It doesn’t matter whom is doing the polling. If you’re not actually voting, your opinion in a poll on a given political race has zero bearing on the outcome.


5 posted on 04/21/2012 12:42:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Not completely worthless when you understand the narative being pushed. DEMS have an advantage in "registered" or those that self identify as DEM, so having a registered voter poll inherently skews towards the RATS, thereby helping create narritives like "Obi at 50% approval" or "the majority of those polled favor XXXXXXXXX"

When they do a poll of "likely to vote" that is worth watching, but it costs a lot and needs a large sample base to crate any meaningful notations, except in micro-polling which is why the campaigns spend so much on "internal" polling.

8 posted on 04/21/2012 1:59:39 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Not completely worthless when you understand the narrative being pushed. DEMS have an advantage in "registered" or those that self identify as DEM, so having a registered voter poll inherently skews towards the RATS, thereby helping create narratives like "Obi at 50% approval" or "the majority of those polled favor XXXXXXXXX"

When they do a poll of "likely to vote" that is worth watching, but it costs a lot and needs a large sample base to crate any meaningful notations, except in micro-polling which is why the campaigns spend so much on "internal" polling.

9 posted on 04/21/2012 2:00:39 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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