FINAL ZOGBY POLL RESULTS- INCLUDES POLLING FROM TONIGHT

ZOGBY

[rwfromkansas]

Pray that Bush's comment "Go for the upset" bears much fruit! :)

[ApesForEvolution]

LOL! Conservatives get out and vote in bad weather...Liberals stay home, get drunk and, well...you figure it out...

[wordweaver]

The condescending old failed liberal will not win. It will NOT happen.

From your lips to God's ears.

Go Norm!!

[Hunble]

I know! Coleman is winning BIG TIME!

[11th_VA]

Jesse came out of nowhere in '98.

Any idea if his 'third party internet voting block' has taken a candidate this year?

[kcvl]

Voter News Service Tests Poll Info.
Mon Nov 4, 9:20 PM ET
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Hours before Election Day, Voter News Service said Monday it still hadn't worked all the bugs out of a new system designed to provide media organizations with exit polling information from voters.

As a precaution, NBC and CBS last weekend began conducting their own joint poll of voter attitudes about the midterm election.

VNS, a consortium consisting of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and The Associated Press, counts actual votes and also conducts exit polling in certain precincts. That information is used by its members to project winners in individual races on Election Night.

The consortium completely rebuilt its system in response to the 2000 election, when television networks twice used its information to make wrong calls in the decisive Florida vote for the presidential election.

VNS has expressed confidence in its ability to tabulate the votes on Tuesday, though its vote counting process had never been tested in its entirety. VNS members have access to a second, independently conducted vote count by the AP.

VNS also plans to use exit polling of how citizens voted, together with the actual vote count, to help project winners and losers.

Where the system has run into trouble is its attempt to tabulate the results of questions that reflect why voters cast their ballots as they did. VNS has yet to complete a full test of a national voter survey, said Ted Savaglio, VNS executive director.

The consortium will continue to test the system into Election Day, he said.

That information is considered vital to fleshing out the reasons behind the electorate's vote, and is of particular importance to the 19 newspapers that have contracted with the consortium for that information.

The nervousness of some media members about the system was reflected in the new CBS and NBC poll, which gathered voter attitudes about issues Saturday through Monday.

"We remain hopeful that VNS will provide the national poll," said NBC News spokeswoman Barbara Levin. "However, as a precaution, NBC News has been doing our own national polling and we are prepared to use that information."

CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius described the new poll as a backup. CBS has considered all along that the rebuilding of VNS would be a four-year process and that the system won't be as complete this election.

"The parts that we are confident in, we'll use," she said. "The parts that we are not confident in, we will not use."

ABC News also said it was prepared to go on Election Night without VNS exit polling information. "Any information about which we have any doubt will simply be set aside," spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said.

[concerned about politics]

SD......ScottPolls, the polling firm formerly known as Portrait of America, just released a poll showing Thune leading Johnson 47.5% to 47.4%, with a ±4.5% among 500 likely voters.

[kcvl]

[ApesForEvolution]

The stakes are so incredibly high for MN and America that only God can get the credit when Norm pulls this off...this will truly shock the world when people see the result!

[justrepublican]

Decorum requires you to vote one time with as many republicans as you can fit in your car.

[Deport Billary]

Bush lost Ramsey county by 50,801 votes and lost minnesota by 58,607. If Coleman can split the deficit at home he might just have a chance.

[rwfromkansas]

Are you in the campaign or something?

[terilyn]

Best of luck to you tomorrow too Hunble!

[paul544]

Thune leading Johnson 47.5% to 47.4%, with a ±4.5%

Ummmmmm... I don't get it?

[ApesForEvolution]

You nailed it. This is THE swing vote in MN. Norm is the outsider and the 'rally on Paul's corpse' did more structural damage than the DNC could have ever imagined.

[bigmikes]

The Georgia Numbers don't seem to make a lot of sense to me. He basically has the Independants going from 62-33 for Chambliss to 58-39 for Cleland. A change that happens as a result of that debate the other day, which pundits have called as lopsided as you'll see at the national level.

Of course one thing is true when you look at polls. the Margin of error increases significantly with the sample size, so these more specific numbers that Zogby gives are often statistically insignificant.

the only way I could see that debate being and advantage for Cleland would be if there was a big pity vote, as people feel like Chambliss beat up on the poor crippled man. It shouldn't happen, but never underestimate how dumb people can be.

I am going into this with negative thoughts (my people are dumb theory), and hoping I will be pleasantly surprised.

[paul544]

I see the GOP get out the vote program is paying big dividends.

[concerned about politics]

I am SOOOOO happy the Welstone death celebration put on by Dumpocraps has motovated the Republican base so much. This is great. I'm hoping for a landslide! My glass is half full. It's turnout and the final tally- including the military votes- that will really tell the story.

[Hunble]

My wife never liked Norm Coleman at all. Heck, he was only the lesser of two evils for us.

In the last week, something has happened, and it is almost spiritual.

Hard to discribe.....

Coleman will win this election, and I now have absolutly no double about that.

I am just trying to understand what and why. It has been simply amazing this week!

[GOPyouth]

ScottPolls, the polling firm formerly known as Portrait of America

Thank you for posting this. I was actually looking for this today and couldn't find it. POA was not showing up. What happened there? If I remember correctly, he was all over Hume's showin 2000, but after he was off so bad, Fox has not had him on since.