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I post this just to show it is a wildly fluctuating, unreliable poll. The differences between the two candidates over the past 3 days are:

Obama +0.5% 10/19/12 Obama +1.7% 10/20/12 Obama +5.7% 10/21/12

Those are huge jumps, especially considering that 6 daily polls are averaged

1 posted on 10/21/2012 10:35:42 AM PDT by Siegfried X
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To: Siegfried X

if memory serves me, this was the one poll that showed McCain with a 2pt advantage over obozo as we entered the closing stages of the ‘08 election day...i remember it because Freepers were clutching on to this poll while raging on Rasmussen...


3 posted on 10/21/2012 10:37:42 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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And the Dems are really doing well. I think we’ll get a new majority in the House.

/Sarcasm!! (Just in case there are any nervous nellies out there.)


4 posted on 10/21/2012 10:38:31 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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Ds are oversampled by 7+ and Obama is supposedly up by 5+. But he is still at 47% - bad news for an incumbent. He cannot get a majority no matter how much friendly pollsters “fix” it for him.

Its over.


5 posted on 10/21/2012 10:39:44 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Pure garbage. It has Obama leading among men! Also it has Romney down 6 yet leading Indy’s by 6? HAHA


7 posted on 10/21/2012 10:40:48 AM PDT by tatown (Obama was right, it was a 'one term proposition')
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found it....i was right in content but wrong w/the numbers...

IBD/TIPP: Dramatic McCain Shift – 2 Point Race

http://www.bucksright.com/ibdtipp-dramatic-mccain-shift-2-point-race-2178


8 posted on 10/21/2012 10:41:02 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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This poll is junk. It’s such a far outlier, it’s got to be a 1 in 1000 fluke.


9 posted on 10/21/2012 10:43:19 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to make Obama a minor footnote in the pages of history)
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The problem isn't the methodology, nor is there a model being applied to the data ~ it's the sampled population ~ you call 10,000 people and you will end up with about 910 old enough and willing enough to answer a few questions.

With CALLER ID in general use what this means is the ONLY people responding to the poll are those who want to respond. That is NO LONGER A RANDOM SAMPLE!

My judgment is this isn't a reliable or meaningful poll. Ignore it. You can ignore all the others too. They are all like that according to PEW.

11 posted on 10/21/2012 10:44:10 AM PDT by muawiyah
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Obama: +5.7 Obama 47.9% | Romney 42.2%

ROTFL! Yeah! Right.

12 posted on 10/21/2012 10:46:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Get the transcript Candy! - Barack Hussein Obama)
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Dem +7 but O is only up 5.7. He is losing the independent vote.


13 posted on 10/21/2012 10:47:05 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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Probably taken in downtown Oakland.


15 posted on 10/21/2012 10:54:11 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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When a poll shows this much fluctuation without cause, it’s not worthy of publishing.

IBD is not doing anyone any favors with this poll.

You could get the odd Republican out there that would read this and think it’s all over for Romney.

It’s just nutty to publish this rubbish.

Not trying to give you a hard time Siegried X. IBD is exercising journalistic malpractice here IMO.


17 posted on 10/21/2012 10:55:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fooled folks once didn't you. Revenge is spelled, "VOTE RED". You're going down donkeys...)
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Attempt to cancel Gallup Poll effect on RCP avg of polls.


20 posted on 10/21/2012 10:57:26 AM PDT by Lacey2
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A four-point jump for Obama??? Yeah.. sure.

Let me guess.. 0bama also has 5-point leads in all the battleground states, too... especially Ohio, where he`s leading by 12.

Even the Daily Kos poll on Friday had RR up by 4.


22 posted on 10/21/2012 11:01:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
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It appears IBD are Obama prostitutes with the results of this poll using far more democrats then republicans.


25 posted on 10/21/2012 11:03:05 AM PDT by stockpirate (Slaves to the collective! SCOTUS is just as corrupt as congress. IMPEACH ROBERTS!)
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And Zero is getting 22% of conservatives according to this poll...yeah right...what a joke...


28 posted on 10/21/2012 11:07:39 AM PDT by usafa92 (Conservative in Jersey)
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To: Siegfried X

Relax it’s an outlier. Besides TIPP will have to adjust their samples next week.


29 posted on 10/21/2012 11:11:52 AM PDT by princeofdarkness ( Nobama. No more. No way. November 2012.)
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Investor’s Business Daily doesn’t appear to know who their audience is—Yet another reason why I don’t subscribe.


31 posted on 10/21/2012 11:14:16 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Re-distribute my work ethic, not my wealth.)
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Romney only up 1 in the South????

LOL!

What did they poll Austin and Charlotte?

Romney is up double digits in most every southern state, and he’s only leading Obama by one? Right!

Plus it has a tiny sample of 913 voters - which is about 130 phone calls per day which would equal about 2 people per state.

The bummer is that this cancels out the Gallup poll in RCP. Which I am sure is the intended purpose.


34 posted on 10/21/2012 11:19:21 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: Siegfried X; a fool in paradise

Don’t get hung up on the internals, you worry warts. Check the Gallup poll today. Check other polls. All of ‘em “scientific”. All of them garbage. Call 1024 people yourself and conduct a poll, it’ll be as valid as any of them. ANY!


35 posted on 10/21/2012 11:19:50 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Siegfried X; Perdogg; LS; Ravi; tatown; nhwingut; InterceptPoint

The TIPP poll was produced SOLELY for the MSM and RCP average narrative

I can understand a poll being +-2 of any other poll. For example, if you look at the cross tabs today on the Rasmussen poll, he has a R52 O48 number once he removes the undecideds. Well that is not so far off the R52 045 number that Gallup has, as Gallup has a 3% MOE

But to come and say that R is at 42% as TIPP said is unbelievable. In fact it is downright dishonest


38 posted on 10/21/2012 11:41:42 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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