That said, this poll is weird when it comes to the time frame in which they polled. If they actually polled like they said, it was between Sept. 30th and October 2nd. That means they polled late Thursday Night, all day Friday, and then Saturday morning. Seems a little unusual to me.
My conclusion, this is a pro-Kerry push poll in order to give the talking heads something to spew about on the Sunday shows. As Rush once said, "The media uses polls to create news, not report on it".
The +2 margin in the sample are the raw numbers, in the weighted sample it is about +5 Dem. Newsweek does weight its polls that way.
In other words, roughly about 39% Dem, 34% Rep, 27% Ind