[Brookhaven]

What Quinnipac is saying is that, when it comes to the people they are able to contact for the poll there is an overwhelming number of Democrats. The question should be: what is wrong with their polling method that causes them to end up contacting too many Democrats?

[AU72]

The question should be: what is wrong with their polling method that causes them to end up contacting too many Democrats?

Calling at 2PM on a week day and catching mostly democrats watching soaps at home?

[Gaffer]

The question should be: what is wrong with their polling method that causes them to end up contacting too many Democrats?

Obama gave them a list of the OBAMAPHONE users.

[BluH2o]

The question should be: what is wrong with their polling method that causes them to end up contacting too many Democrats?

They happen to be home the most ... they're not working.

[Sooth2222]

"The question should be: what is wrong with their polling method that causes them to end up contacting too many Democrats? "

Polling in July and August, and not correcting for party affiliation? WHO is away on vacation or at the beach in July and August, and WHO is staying at home behind closed blinds and barred doors? (Rasmussen -- I think -- corrects for this somewhat, but not completely.)

[CanuckYank]

AU72 gives you one parameter. Another poster recently pointed out that VERY FEW small biz owners get home before 7 or 8 PM and one of the main polling time blocks is 5:30pm to 7pm.

And then, ultimately, you have the same vulnerability with the polling data tabulation as we have with vote counting - when done by machines, and in particular computers, any result desired can be generated by tweaking the counting algorithms in the software. In the case of pollsters, there’s also the issue of the software that drives the “random” dialers.

[LS]

Agreed, and more important, it doesn’t matter WHERE the “identification” comes from, when you have 36% Ds, you quit polling Ds.

[StAnDeliver]

"What Quinnipac is saying is that, when it comes to the people they are able to contact for the poll there is an overwhelming number of Democrats. The question should be: what is wrong with their polling method that causes them to end up contacting too many Democrats?"

The big tipoff was the even '1000' polled. So they robocalled 1000, stopped, and set the populations as they laid. That's not just unorthodox, that's fraudulent methodology.

Hewitt knows some polling, and Brown obviously wasn't prepared for that.