[keepitreal]

Sample just a tad bit skewed.

[yldstrk]

Wow, you don’t say.

[Perdogg]

ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

[pillut48]

Knock me over with a feather!!
Biased, you say?! Go figure!!

/sarc

[icwhatudo]

So even though there were 17% more dems used, he only had a 15% lead? LOL thats got to hurt...

[driftdiver]

“39% Democratic, 22% Republican, 8% something else, 4% refused to say.”

39+22+8+4 = 73%

Am I confused or are we still missing 27%?

[muawiyah]

Doesn't matter; we understand these things. At this time in a Presidential election cycle the skewed polls should show the Democrat at least 17 percentage points ahead of the Republican.

With Obamasama at only 15 points ahead, that probably means a coming Republican landslide.

The Pincus lady doesn't have a clue.

[God luvs America]

give them credit for at least having the b@lls to report this...

[jimbo123]

Susan Pinkus: Liberal.

[C210N]

The poll was NOT weighted for party identification since party ID is a moving variable...

A poll is "NOT weighted" for whatever variable suits the pollsters political leftist leanings. At this point months in advance of election day, polls are "not weighted" in such a way to give Obomba a BIG advantage to make pubs depressed and less likely to contribute, volunteer, etc.

[jimbo123]

Email the pollster here:

susan.pinkus@latimes.com

[B Knotts]

39% Democratic, 22% Republican, 8% something else, 4% refused to say.

LOL

How did this woman get into this field? She seems to be incapable of understanding basic reality.

[Nabber]

The day the Democratic convention ended in San Francisco in 1984, the Newsweek poll showed Walter Mondale 18 points ahead of President Ronald Reagan. Mondale ended up getting clobbered, 49 states to one.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Obama holds 12-point lead over McCain, poll finds
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:16:46 PM · 39 of 72
HeartlandOfAmerica to The_Republican
I may be mistaken, but if not, the LAT is the paper that tends to oversample Dems in their polls.

Besides, who cares about Registered voters 4 months out?

Oil is the key to this election. It keeps going up like this, it'll be $200/barrel at the election and Dems are going to have a lot to answer for.

People shelling out $100 per tank is something they can understand.

Course, why they aren't more po'd at the dems at 140/barrel is beyond me.

Of course it was oversampled. Only an idiot would think otherwise. They've done it before and when one candidate comes out with an overnight 10+ pt lead, its time to ask how the poll was conducted.

[B Knotts]

The poll was NOT weighted for party identification since party ID is a moving variable that changes from one election to another, or when one party may be favored more than the other.

No one who knows what he's doing would say such a thing.

[Chode]

lets see... if they call btwn 8 and 5 weekdays, all the Republicans are at WORK!!!

[TribalPrincess2U]

Noooooo. I’m shocked!

[Uncle Hal]

Gee, a skewed poll in the LA times. I am shocked.

[Tzimisce]

I heard 55% were going for Obama, 50% were going for McCain and 8% were undecided....

[kikia]

Today Gallup has Obama & McCain tied, Rasmussen Obama +4. The polls showing Obama with such big leads make me wonder if they are not deliberately biased - people who are undecided often tend to go for the ‘winner’. They are trying to push people towards Obama. How biased our news media is towards Obama, will they ever get back to reporting news instead of forcing their opinions down our throats (they ‘know’ so much more than the rest of us).