Generic Ballot Splits 48% for GOP, 43% for Dems

Gallup ^ | 9/13/2010 | by Lydia Saad

[CA Conservative]

PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-eight percent of registered voters favor Republican congressional candidates and 43% favor Democratic candidates in Gallup's national generic ballot for the week of Sept. 6-12.

[CA Conservative]

Looks like Gallup is heading back up where everyone else is. As I thought, last week's poll was an outlier. This is a RV poll. Rasmussen's LV poll shows a 9 point advantage. The RCP average is 7.8%, and includes both LV and RV polls. So the lead is looking pretty steady for now.

[MissesBush]

Gallup is reeling around like a hobo after a gallon of ripple. One week the GOP is 10 points ahead, the next week it’s tied...now this. Gallup = laughing stock poll best ignored. Watch Rasmussen. They don’t have these same wild swings.

[Williams]

Polling all registered voters, so far as I know, is not a good indication of election results. All registered voters are always measured as more democratic, and even so repubs lead in this poll.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Bull crap. Gallup is covering their sad ass. They also came out with a “poll” that said nearly 60% of Americans want taxes increased on the “rich”. They’re full of it.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Gallup is reeling around like a hobo after a gallon of ripple.

Line of the day!

[1035rep]

Gallop is starting to pick up on current events.

[paul544]

Have to wonder if the peak was too soon.

[FrdmLvr]

Polling likely voters is a better measure.

[Lazlo in PA]

“Gallup is reeling around like a hobo after a gallon of ripple.”

Kudos for using “ripple” and “hobo” in such a fine description. Very fitting. Hilarious.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Statistics have shown that on a generic ballot, a D +4 is a tie. Add that to the +7 average and you get approx +10 GOP with the mix of LV and RV polling. Either way, it's a turdblossom for the RATS, no matter how they spin it.

Just as I expected, and might have stated somewhere, the "pollsters" are trying to average down the averages at RCP to keep the "all is lost" mentality from kicking in.

PPP and some other pollturds will keep sending out wildly swinging polls that water down the averages, for the next few months, mark my words. Or, do as I have been and take screen shots of various polls and save them till after the election and see how distorted they were, and write about it.

[EGPWS]

Forty-eight percent of registered voters favor Republican congressional candidates and 43% favor Democratic candidates in Gallup's national generic ballot for the week of Sept. 6-12.

There can't be that many lost souls in this country and Obama's family isn't that big.

Are they resorting to polling the dead?

[JPG]

Gallup looked really stupid going from 10 to 0. A big OOPS. Adults and RV = not as predictive while LV = much more accurate.

[af_vet_1981]

They also came out with a “poll” that said nearly 60% of Americans want taxes increased on the “rich”. They’re full of it.

Probably accurate with the way the question is posed; most folks think of the next family up as rich anyway, no matter what their assets. "Raise their taxes, not mine."

[calex59]

According to another poll today it is R47 to D38, I think Gallup is trying to pad the numbers to give the Dems some hope.

[for-q-clinton]

Especially in a non-presidential election and where the party of the rat controls everything. Expect them to be way oversampled in an RV poll.

[Red Steel]

Looks like Gallup is heading back up where everyone else is. As I thought, last week's poll was an outlier.

On purpose. Gallup appeased their delusional loon rats after they came out with an earlier 10% generic poll gap.

[cookcounty]

"Polling all registered voters, so far as I know, is not a good indication of election re could be a very messed up number, especially if they are using past voter activity to define it. Half those new Obama voters are going to sit home. But if they voted in the last election, are they defined as "likely voters?" That's how some polls have done it in the past.

[glock rocks]

This is good, right?

[tubebender]

About as good a a bottle of Ripple in a Hobo camp...

(stolen up thread)

[NormsRevenge]

beats being down by 10, I reckun..