What are internals? I’m guess its D+5 or 6+ oversampled.
I’d need to know the breakdown before one can say for sure Bamster has got OH locked up.
Here is how they phrase their questions....
"Do you support the puppy loving, generous, osama bin ladin slayer or the rich guy who pisses on 47% of the population."
I know that is stretching it, but PPP has also been trained to use proper voice inflection to sway poll particpants.
As far as I am concerned, I am only watching Ras. The rest have hidden agendas.
D+8
Its internals were:
About the Ohio Newspaper PollThe telephone poll which used both land lines and cell phones of 1,015 likely voters across Ohio from Oct. 18 through Oct. 23, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. Other sources of error are possible, such as non-response bias. The response rate was 19.47 percent.
The party breakdown of the randomly selected respondents: 47 percent Democrats, 44 percent Republicans, 10 percent independents. The data were weighted to correct for potential sampling bias on gender and region of residence for respondents.
The poll was financed solely by the Ohio Newspaper Organization.
This poll is part of a continuing collaboration among Ohio's eight largest newspapers: The Dayton Daily News, (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Akron Beacon Journal, The (Toledo) Blade, Canton Repository and The (Youngstown) Vindicator. The poll was conducted by the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati.
So, even with a +3 advantage for democrats and saying only 10% are independents, this poll with only a 3.1% MOE found the race tied.
That tracks with Rasmussen's Ohio poll.
I'm by and large sticking with Rasmussen and not being turned aside by any of the others.