Posted on 04/20/2006 1:27:13 PM PDT by areafiftyone
This data tells us nothing!
To determine the VALIDITY of a particular poll's results, one must know the demographic composition (including party affiliation) of the poll's respondents. [NOTE: To be considered valid, a poll must feature a REPRESENTATIVE sample of 'adults', 'registered voters', and/or 'likely voters'! . . . BTW: While this poll asked questions designed to elicit November voting patterns, it opted to survey 'adults' vs 'likely voters'. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?!]
Rasmussen seems the most reliable and actually bothers to balance by party I.D. unlike the rest of them who all over-represent Democrats.
By 43%-27%, more Americans say the Democratic Party can better handle immigration. Roughly one-in-seven Republicans (15%) believe Democrats can do a better job on this issue, compared with 7% of Democrats who favor the GOP on immigration. Independents by 37%-21% think the Democratic Party can better handle immigration.
Now stop talking logic! Just be one of the Free Republic Bush haters who want to believe everyone hates Republicans, Bush is more hated than Bin Laden, that the polls overrepresenting Democrats by the lapdog media are all legit. and that the only issue to worry about is illegal immigration! Get with the program man!
"Wasn't there a recent news story that indicated 75% of people called don't respond to polling companies?"
YEP. In the 1980s, Gallup was able to generate a response rate of 60% and up . . . Today, most polling organizations, including Gallup, consider themselves lucky when they they can reach double digits.
[. . . and another dirty secret that ALL of the pollsters acknowledge when pressed: Republicans/conservatives are the LEAST likely to 'take a poll' -- by a WIDE margin.
For this reason, these polls are typically generating data from a polling sample that MAY reflect the opinions of Democrats/Democrat-leaning Independents within the 5-15% of the 'adult' population who actually answer a land-line telephone on any given weekend.]
No, the rules on Free Republic are now blind faith in rigged polls by the lapdog media that has nothing positive ever to report on the president or his efforts in office, polls that over-represent Democrats relative to their actual percentages in the voting population often as much as by 14 points in the recent AP/Ipsos poll, but typically by at least 8-10 percentage points because by god we need to believe everyone hates Bush as much as we do and that everyone only cares about illegal aliens and nothing else! Those are the new rules on Free Republic. Please update your user's guide.
Another question that demonstrates the political bias of PEW is its question about knowledge of the war deaths in Iraq. Notice there is NO question about any other war, or even battle. The death-selling industry in the US doesn't want any Americans to look at history to judge the Iraq efforts in context. And PEW doesn't want that level of comparative knowledge, either.
It is fortunate that PEW has a well-established record of inaccuracy. Otherwise, this would be discouraging news.
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Congressman Billybob
I dont remember the DEMS being in this much trouble in the spring of 1994. It fell apart for them in Aug.
The GOP could lose far more seats tham anyone realizes
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