Posted on 08/02/2012 6:47:19 PM PDT by Nachum
On what alternate universe will Democrats enjoy a D +19 turnout advantage over Republicans on election day? Well, that would be Planet Pew:
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted July 16-26, 2012, among 2,508 adults, including 1,956 registered voters, finds that, in keeping with his favorability advantage, Obama continues to hold a sizable lead over Romney in the election contest. Currently, 51% say they support Obama or lean toward him, while 41% support or lean toward Romney.
Except….
Sample Size
459 Republicans
813 Democrats
599 Independents
In the best election season Democrats have enjoyed since Nixon resigned, 2008, the Democrat advantage was only D+8, but Pew is now attempting to hustle us into believing the turnout this year is going to be D +19.
The internals make even less sense. According to the same Pew poll that has Obama up by 10 nationally, he's only ahead by 4 in the in the swings states but he's losing to Romney with independents 45-43%.
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Who cares? Let them tout their phony numbers all they want so Democratic voters become complacent and stay home since BO is going to run away with it anyway.
Are these polling organizations ever asked to explain why they would release such a poll or if released, why they didn’t highlight the fact that their sample was weighted heavily toward one party beyond all reasonable expectations? How can they justify such blatant bias?
Apparently pollsters (especially this far out) might as well just be pulling numbers out of thin air in terms of being held accountable. After all, they can always claim that things changed significantly by the time of the election and thus the discrepancy. The only thing that really matters is being in the ballpark in the final days. Therefore you see all sorts of games like this going on.
And of course the liberal-controlled media happily play along with it.
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