HI RICHMOND!!! I’m in redneck country...Pulaski Co. of South-western Virginia.
McCain/Palin are pretty hot down here too. Our concern IS the Richmond/D.C. area with all of the libs going for Obama “ruining” the Virginia electoral votes.
You know? The Marxist way of controlling the population is providing lies in the media/to the masses. Is that all you think these polls are??? The left’s Marxist way of trying to intimidate and force the election to go socialist??
Hello Pulaski! My fathers entire family is from Pulaski, Salem and Roanoke. Beautiful country, nice genuine people. Used to go to “Lakeside Amusment Park” in Roanoke back in the 60’s when I was a little boy.
This was posted earlier today if you haven’t seen it. It’s a positive read. Hopefully accurate.
The Collins Report ^ | Oct. 1, 2008. | Kevin ?Coach? Collins
Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:36:55 AM by jmaroneps37
Recent poll numbers beg for further investigation into how polls work and are used to
sometimes direct public opinion instead of reflect it.
The American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) provides some answers.
The AAPOR suggests that of each 100 calls a typical pollster makes just 12 fully
completed interviews of ?registered? voters will be conducted. There are 88 calls that
fail to meet the standard for a usable interview and are disgarded. There are hang-ups,
bad numbers, answering machines and most frequently, refusals to even start.
Consequently, in order to get 500 respondents, the usual number used in state polls, they
have to make 6,000 calls.
As experience has shown us, ?registered voters? are less reliable indicators of eventual
electoral outcomes than ?likely voters.? Since just 60% of registered voters are likely
voters, the number of calls balloons to 9600. This is why, although it is the actual
?gold standard? of polling, we rarely see polls of likely voters, except from the largest
companies.
AAPOR acknowledges that pollsters can make polls ?come out? as they want them to.
As AAPOR reports, there is nothing random about polls. Zogby uses Internet polls that beg
for abuse by agenda motivated respondents.
Pollsters re-call the same people and admit doing so.
How else could they meet deadlines and budget targets?
When they ?want? a poll showing McCain down 8 points, having a list of respondents who
will say they favor Obama is very useful.
Polls are regularly used as psychological weapons to dampen the fighting spirit of
Republican voters. They are never used to dampen Democrats.
Remember the final 2004 Election Day prediction from John Zogby saying John Kerry would
get at least 310 Electoral votes? He was so wrong that his pronouncement could not
possibly have been merely ?an error.?