Posted on 01/28/2008 11:28:29 AM PST by Plutarch
Huh? From the article:
PPP surveyed 680 likely Republican primary voters on January 27th....
I encourage people NOT to hang up on the calls that are for McCain...it just uses up their resources.
When I get a call for McCain, I just let it run....they’re wasting their breath, but they don’t know that.
According to the survey, Public Polling has only done South Carolina, and with middling results. However, note that on the Dem side in SC Public Polling was the least inaccurate of all the polls, being blindsided the least by Obama's landslide.
Hopefully Public Polling is accurately detecting a Romney surge for tomorrow!
2008 Presidential Primary Pollster Report Card Through 01/26/08
I have been listening to them to see what they say but I am too mad at Crist to listen to him.
Not much today, one call from Mitt, one mccain, and then one for huck on right to life/marriage issues, comparing his record to the other 3. not truthfully of course.
I hope these poll results are accurate, but polls have been off too much.
And it looks like most conservatives have decided Mitt's the only viable alternative to McCain.
Go Mitt!
The lies about what Romney said concerning timetables won’t help McCain.
He played the dishonesty card.
Yeah, Crist rankles me to no end.
The property tax relief amendment I'll vote for--but it is a far far cry from what he campaigned on!
He sucks up to the Global Warming idiocy, and in the last days of the campaign tries to become a little "kingmaker" for the McLame Campaign.
Like I said before: I walked my precinct and made phone calls for this guy. He was better than the 'rat Davis...but I doubt he'll be getting my legwork this time around.
RCP doesn't include all the polls. For example, ARG is no longer included. RCP didn't include Public Policy in its South Carolina average, even though Public Policy ended up the most accurate on the Democratic side.
Florida is a RINO take all state?
Also, judging by their published client list, PPP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the North Carolina Democrat Party.
I heard on one of the talking heads show that a lot of Jeb Bush’s organization in Florida is quietly and behind the scenes working for Mitt. If this is true it should help Mitt out more than Crist coming out in support of McCain in the waning days of the primary. I don’t know Crist that well, but I do know that Jeb Bush is a true conservative. Much more than his brother. That tells me a lot when he supports someone.
By the way, those Pollster charts are downright purty...
I wouldn't make that assumption. Whether McCain gets more support among these groups varies by several demographic factors.
As you observed, 80% of the people polled were over 45. It's impossible that this is what the Florida electorate looks like. And only 4% of the participants were between the ages of 18 and 29. Again, it's just impossible that the Florida electorate has that few people in their 20s.
I don't feel good when I see this kind of thing. I wonder what the pollster is thinking cause I sure would not settle for such a lopsided sample.
When phone calls are made for polling purposes, all answers are taken into account, including those who already voted.
Note that these are not exit polls done at the voting booth.
Those polls would exclude advance voters.
>> When phone calls are made for polling purposes, all answers are taken into account, including those who already voted. <<
Yes, but votes shift, and with a small portion actually voting and a large portion saying they will vote, a random sample survey will not reflect the actual voters.
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