I cannot believe 50% of the country is voting for this guy.
What are they thinking??
It’s scary.
“freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
Was the ABC reporter jumping up and down on his bed as he wrote this?
a. The economy 53 39 1 4 3
b. Fixing the problems
with major financial
institutions 51 38 * 6 4
c. The war in Iraq 49 45 * 4 3
d. International affairs 48 46 0 3 3
e. The U.S. campaign
against terrorism 44 48 1 3 4
f. An unexpected major
crisis 46 47 2 2 3
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As always, the devil is in the details.
These findings totally contradict all other polls. Even in polls that are close, voters by a large marigin picked McCain on these issues.
Polls should be given the same scrutiny as “news”. When they come from a known enemy like ABC, they should be given double scrutiny, I read the whole poll, it doesn’t pass the sniff test.
The media sees the economy as an OPPORTUNITY to show Obama ahead and influence thought, in this window, expect heavily cooked polls like this.
“Democrat Takes 52-43 Lead Among DEMOCRAT Likely Voters,”
there, fixed it
Just for fun, I thought I’d check to see if this article had made it to the MSN News page.
Yup...it’s already up in the front page main headlines.
Unbelievable. “Bias” doesn’t do it justice.
Who cares, it’s a highly skewed “AB-CCCP” popular vote poll, not an electoral college poll. Whether Obambi wins NY, CA and Illinois by 10% or by 50% makes no difference.
WTF is this? this way off from all the other polls. Did they poll 60% Democrats?
Too many Democrats (38%), too few Republicans (28%)in this sample. This is the favorite Jedi mind trick of media polls. In every Presidential election since 1988, neither party had more than a four point advantage over the other party. You can safely disregard any poll with a spread of more than 4 points between Democrats and Republicans. It isn’t scientifically valid because the sample used is not representative of the actual voting population (it contains too many Rats and not enough GOPers).
To put this in perspective, there is evidence in Rasmussen’s tracking poll that Obama polled better on 9/19 and 9/20, while McCain polled slightly better the next two nights. He had the race even this morning.
In Gallup, Obama polled slightly better on 9/19-9/21, but McCain polled even last night. This is among registered voters. Gallup says that its likely voter pool is about 4-5 points more Republican than its registered voter pool (which it uses for its daily tracking). This morning all this translated to a 3 point lead for Obama among registered voters, suggesting that McCain has in fact pulled even or even taken a small lead among likely voters.
The people living in this country REALLY need to cut down on the recreational drugs.
Oh give me a break.
42%? No way in Hell. I don’t even have to read the internals and questioning to know this one is worthless. If they want it believable put it at 45%-46%.
Excuse me - everyone is yelling “DOOM!” “BIASED POLL!” “MCCAIN IS IN TROUBLE!”
There’s a simpler explanation:
Outlier.
This is just completely at odds with other numbers that were released today. Why does everyone seem to jump on bad numbers like this when it is so at odds with other numbers?
There’s another new poll out tonight by Ipsos, Obama 44, McCain 43, REGISTERED voters.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080923/pl_mcclatchy/3053371
the internals of this poll are absolute GARBAGE
10% differential between party affiliations and large over sampling of blacks????? you have got to be kidding!
obama must really be doing poorly for abc to spew this horse crap.
whoever did this poll should be ashamed of themselves and we should call them out.
I believe this poll about as much as I believe Islam is a religion of peace. /s
LOL, MSN tries to stop the bleeding. Even Barry knows better.
All the daily tracking polls (Gallup, Hotline, Rasmussen, Battleground) show a slight move towards McCain in the past 3 days. This poll is a horrible outlier and thus should not be treated seriously at this time. It’ll be interesting to see the daily tracking numbers in the morning.