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Which polls are, or aren’t, legitimate?
Hotair ^ | 09/26/2012 | AllahPundit

Posted on 09/26/2012 4:29:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/26/2012 4:29:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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My view is that for a long time the media/pollsters were biased toward Dems. But in the last 5 years (the era of Baraq & the journ0lists) they’ve actually become a functional arm of the Democrat campaign machine.


2 posted on 09/26/2012 4:31:58 PM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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But in the last 5 years (the era of Baraq & the journ0lists) they’ve actually become a functional arm of the Democrat campaign machine.

Yep, this election is Romney's to lose..

3 posted on 09/26/2012 4:33:32 PM PDT by cardinal4 (If Baraq Hussein Obama had a son he would look like Rageboy)
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To: nascarnation

But do you believe that ALL polls are biased except Rasmussen?

Heck, even Rasmussen does not show Romney moving up at this point in time.


4 posted on 09/26/2012 4:33:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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To: SeekAndFind

Are people ever drunk when they are polled?


5 posted on 09/26/2012 4:43:58 PM PDT by FreedBird
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“The “anti-Obama voters” whom McLaughlin has in mind are swing-state undecideds who either voted for Obama in 2008 or stayed home and are now persuadable by Romney due to their disgruntlement over Hopenchange. They’re low-motivated fence-sitters.”

Yes, and the CBS news was pimping their biased poll tonight, and decided to try to highlight an undecided voter in Ohio.

Do you know who it was? You’ve guessed it before I even tell you, right?

A supposedly “moderate Republican” female karate instructor, who is leaning toward Obama because Romney hasn’t “moved toward the middle,” and doesn’t understand “regular people.”

WTF?? WTF?? WTF?? WTF??

Are you freaking kidding me? No wonder the country is doomed, if these people are the “undecided”.

And you know CBS went out of their way to find a (phony) Republican dissatisfied with Romney who reinforces the stereotypes about Romney that only the media agree with. The only people who think Mitt is “too extreme” are left-wing media-types.

There’s no way any REAL “Moderate Republican” could possibly think Romney’s too right-wing. Mitt is tailor-made for moderate Repubs and swing-voters.

Yet these scumbags highlight this woman to help Zero, of course.

The Fourth Estate are truly a bunch of bastards - I despise them. The Romney campaign might not want to complain about the media, but I WILL.


6 posted on 09/26/2012 4:45:53 PM PDT by Kingosaurus
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Don’t know - but I think they may not tell the truth of what they are going to do, just to mess up the poll. If I got called tonight (and I actually answered the phone), I wouldn’t tell them who I was going to vote for.


7 posted on 09/26/2012 4:46:15 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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One thing for sure, If Obama wins, I will definitely drink more.


8 posted on 09/26/2012 4:48:30 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: SeekAndFind

Only elections are acurate. Polls are for strippers and cross country skiing


9 posted on 09/26/2012 4:50:06 PM PDT by barmag25
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10 posted on 09/26/2012 4:51:14 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Help us OB/GYN! You are our only hope!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe the concept of polls is flawed. Polls are no better than educated guesses and usually aren’t that reliable. Adding in the bias in the pollsters, you see that the best course of action is to ignore the polls. Ignore them even if Romney is shown to be the lead.


11 posted on 09/26/2012 4:52:12 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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RE: Only elections are acurate.

Now that is a truism if I ever heard one.

The question we are all interested in at this point in time is this — ARE THE POLLS TODAY PREDICTIVE OF THE ACTUAL ELECTIONS?


12 posted on 09/26/2012 4:52:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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To: FreedBird

Mind Numbed O-Bots!!!!

13 posted on 09/26/2012 4:54:37 PM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Bring our troops home now!!! Stop funding our enemies!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Heck, even Rasmussen does not show Romney moving up at this point in time.

Actually Rass with learners shows Romney +2 today.

This is why the phoney media polling is so effective. They follow the Gobbles trick, scream a big lie and keep screaming it because eventually even people who should know better start believing at least some portion of the lie.

14 posted on 09/26/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Colonial Warrior

Even Fox news is getting more difficult to watch. Maybe we all should just drink and watch a bunch of guys run around on a field, while someone yells in the background.


15 posted on 09/26/2012 4:56:00 PM PDT by FreedBird
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The LEFT has been in full press mode in the last few weeks since the conventions.. This is about 3 weeks earlier than I can trace from the last 3 Presidential elections.. This kind of critical care “CODE BLUE” technique hasn’t been used since Clinton second term strategy this early..

Gore and Kerrey campaigns were a typical hard nose battles with semi bad candidates on both sides.. They usually hold off the big guns until October..

What makes this election so desperate for the Liberals is that this one could undo the party for a generation, because of the poor Obama performance, and the pitiful condition of the National Economy..

They are afraid that this enormous deficit could allow the GOP to make massive cuts in the establishment Government programs, with a pliant electorate in their corner..

Loss of Government jobs, a reinvention of the Unions contracts, and many folks going back to work with the Democrats in their rear view mirror, as the fall guys..


16 posted on 09/26/2012 4:56:22 PM PDT by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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“One thing for sure, If Obama wins, I will definitely drink more”!......i hope you live in a warm climate. vodka drinkers in the former soviet union, get a snoot full, pass out, & freeze to death.


17 posted on 09/26/2012 4:56:55 PM PDT by stickywillie (stanley ann went black, & never came back)
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Great points. Makes a lot of sense.


18 posted on 09/26/2012 4:58:22 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Colonial Warrior

The average person probably doesn’t know who is running for election in local races.


19 posted on 09/26/2012 4:58:25 PM PDT by FreedBird
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To: SeekAndFind

You are better off to trust your instinct than to rely on polls. I trust no polls, because they are influenced by, or employ liberals, and we all know how they are. My gut feeling is that America has had way beyond enough of Obama and the socialist crowd and will rise up like a massive tsunami come Nov 6. That’s how I honestly feel. We all knew that polls would be inflated to make obama look good. We should just grin and ignore them all the way to the polls.


20 posted on 09/26/2012 4:58:55 PM PDT by lwoodham (I am Andrew Breitbart. Don't doubt me on this.)
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