I have always cautioned about not finding ourselves in a sealed echo chamber in which we only hear the polls we want to hear and discard the rest. No one knows what the “Chris Christie” effect might be and come this weekend (God forbid) if the independents were to swing back to Obama. Let’s see what Gallup comes up with on Friday but this FoxNews poll is disheartening to say the least.
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What exactly is disheartening about this poll? I find it rather encouraging that Obama is sitting at 46% in yet another national poll, and that it once again finds Republicans far more certain to show up and vote.
If polls over the next few days do as I expect and show Obama pulling ahead due to his response to Sandy, then that will be disheartening, but even then we will have to see if the bounce has staying power or if it disappears just as quickly as it showed up.
I see nothing in this current poll to be disappointed about though. Tell me what I am missing.
Yeah, a hermetic information chamber is not desirable. Anytime I’ve glanced at DU I get creeped out because it’s obvious a large # of people there have poor reality testing. The preponderance of this at FR hasn’t been nearly as high IMO, but I think it’s understandable that the stakes of this election might elevate tendencies towards it given the nightmare that Obama is and all that he represents.
I don’t foresee much impact from a “Chris Christie” effect. I could be wrong, but my gut sense is that he doesn’t exert much sway among independent, and isn’t really an influential factor in the electorate’s choices.
Yeah, a hermetic information chamber is not desirable. Anytime I’ve glanced at DU I get creeped out because it’s obvious a large # of people there have poor reality testing. The preponderance of this at FR hasn’t been nearly as high IMO, but I think it’s understandable that the stakes of this election might elevate tendencies towards it given the nightmare that Obama is and all that he represents.
I don’t foresee much impact from a “Chris Christie effect”. I could be wrong, but my gut sense is that he doesn’t exert much sway among independents, and isn’t really an influential factor in the electorate’s choices.