Has anyone explained why the polls with weekend numbers favor Obama and the polls with only weekday numbers tend to favor McCain? Which is most representative for election turnout?
I don't know which is more representative, but I think the reason weekend numbers favor Obama is because McCain voters aren't sitting at home on the weekend.
“Has anyone explained why the polls with weekend numbers favor Obama and the polls with only weekday numbers tend to favor McCain? Which is most representative for election turnout?”
What are you doing on Friday nights and weekends? Football games, moose hunting, fishing, building a tree house, working on your car, mowing the grass? On weekends I’m almost always working or playing outside, or gone, and never call back a number on my caller ID that didn’t leave a message. In fact I rarely pick up if I don’t recognize the number, so I never get polled. I don’t think as many Dems lead the same type of lifestyle.