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Interesting Trafalgar results. It's a well known phenomenon that election polls are more accurate if they ask participants how others will vote: Much more predictive than asking who are you going to vote for. This way it includes all kinds of people who are not participating in polls and avoids people hesitating to tell the truth about who they plan to vote for. So Trafalgar always asks this question. Most recent results (October 31, 2022) were published. "Who do you think your neighbors and friends will vote for in the 2022 midterm elections?" Republicans -- 60.6% Democrats -- 35.7% Third...

True competition for African American votes may take many years to accomplish, but those important first steps may be starting right now The liberal mainstream news media have a narrative about Donald Trump and they do not deviate. The constant refrain is that the President is unhinged, idiotic, tyrannical and especially racist. Recently, the President was labeled a racist when he criticized CNN’s Don Lemon and NBA star LeBron James. Their latest obsession is the new book written by fired White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman.

The number of Republicans in the country was virtually unchanged in February, while the number of Democrats fell to a new low for the third month in a row. During February, 36.0% of Americans considered themselves Republicans. That’s up from 35.9% in January and the highest number of Republicans measured since December 2010.

The news of CNN’s hiding the results of its own poll on the public’s feelings about Obamacare wasn’t surprising. As a general rule poll results showing bad news for Democrats are smothered until they can no longer be suppressed or become irrelevant. After sitting on it for weeks CNN finally released the results of its survey on Obamacare. What they were holding back was a finding of 56/ 43 opposition to the bill. The bias of CNN is clearly visible because it released some of the results, but held back this Obamacare bad news. Other questions The one poll question...

Putting a Poll in the Field By Norma Zager When I awoke this morning, I wasn’t certain if I wanted to jump out of bed and begin the day or curl myself back into a groggy bundle beneath the quilt. After a moment or two deciding my best course of action, I put a poll in the field. It was decided 54 to 46 percent with a margin of error 2 or 3% I should get my lazy butt out of bed and get to work. When I received my credit card statement I noticed the bank had raised my...

"Joe the Plumber" may be paying off for John McCain. [McCain].. scored sharp gains on the pivotal issue of jobs and the economy in the past week, ....an Ipsos/McClatchy Poll... ".. Obama's margin on who's stronger jobs and economy ..down from 16 points to 7 points in one week. [Obama].loss of ground on.. [giving] taxpayers' money to the poor .... Obama, 48 McCain, 42 Ralph Nader, 1 Bob Barr, 1 The remaining 8 percent undecided Obama's 6-point lead Ipsos/McClatchy Poll from 8 points the week before. ... 3.4 [MoE]. Obama still leads .. But he's lost ground on several.... On...

On behalf of the Texas Credit Union League, Public Opinion Strategies and Hamilton Campaigns conducted two Texas statewide surveys... • Senator McCain garners 45% of the Republican primary vote while Governor Huckabee shores up support from 41% of the primary electorate, making this race a statistical tie within the margin of error. Texas Congressman Ron Paul claims 6% of the vote and 5% say they are undecided. • McCain’s image is 75% favorable, 22% unfavorable, while Huckabee’s is 75% favorable, 15% unfavorable. Huckabee has a 36% strong favorable rating compared to McCain’s 29%. • McCain leads 49% to 36% among...

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Republican Sen. George Allen is slightly ahead of Democratic challenger Jim Webb in a close Virginia race that could determine whether the GOP retains control of the U.S. Senate. A statewide survey by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. showed that 47 percent supported Allen's re-election while 43 percent favored Webb, a former Republican and first-time candidate. Two percent supported independent Gail Parker and 8 percent were undecided. The results, published Monday night on the Web sites of several Virginia newspapers, are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 17-19 with 625 registered voters statewide. Allen's tenuous advantage is equal to the...

Just when you thought the 2004 presidential election was over, just when you thought it was time to move on towards other news stories, just when you thought the left was finally through with their whining and carping, just when you thought all that was done, here comes Je$$e Jackson. Yes, yes, my friends the supreme race-pimp himself, Je$$e Jackson, has found another way to get free airtime and free publicity. I guess he could not stand not having cameras on him for too long, because he is in Ohio stirring up tensions and dividing people, which is, of course,...

ethepeople.org Poll Results Lean Toward Victory for Bush

Last night I was informed that our poll was attacked by terrorist. Not the kind of terrorist you hear about everyday but the kind at Free Republic.com. Freeping is a way of manipulating a poll to reflect an outcome which is not neccesarily the opinion of our visitors. The polling system was ... damaged and before I remove it I want everyone to see what happened. Free Republic at this time has LRP World News Listed at the top of one of their web pages for a need of major freeping. In fact a quick search on google will show...