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Dispatch Poll: Obama widens lead (in Democrat skewed poll) as balloting starts
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/30/1-dispatch-poll-shows-obama-in-lead.html ^

Posted on 09/30/2012 4:18:54 AM PDT by timlot

"A new Dispatch Poll shows him trailing President Barack Obama in bellwether Ohio by 9 points, 51 percent to 42 percent.

A surge of Democratic support for Obama has transformed the race since the first Dispatch Poll had the two dead-even at 45 percent just before the Republican National Convention in late August".

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 09/30/2012 4:19:01 AM PDT by timlot
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2 posted on 09/30/2012 4:22:29 AM PDT by Red Steel
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There’s only two ways Obama takes a lead...more Dem voters or he is winning over independents. Two different issues going forward.


3 posted on 09/30/2012 4:23:29 AM PDT by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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The "mail poll" is the last line of the article.

Who participates in a mail in poll? Why?

4 posted on 09/30/2012 4:24:05 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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Check www.unskewedpolls.com for a supposedly non partisan view.


5 posted on 09/30/2012 4:24:58 AM PDT by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: Red Steel

Yeah, with this sample, Strickland would be Governor.


6 posted on 09/30/2012 4:25:21 AM PDT by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: timlot

Sample is Dem 43%, GOP 34%, Ind 19%....

Garbage poll, so a +9 dem bias produces a +9 lead, who’d have thunk.


7 posted on 09/30/2012 4:28:18 AM PDT by sunmars
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Using the numbers in the party identification section of the poll, the total respondents were 1630. 43% identified themselves as Democrats, 34% as Republicans, and 19% as having no party identification. With those numbers, it's not difficult to see how they managed to manufacture a 9% lead for Obama!
8 posted on 09/30/2012 4:29:06 AM PDT by srmorton (Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death,....therefore, choose life..")
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Black 97 % for Obama ...And whites are the racists , right ?


9 posted on 09/30/2012 4:29:37 AM PDT by sushiman
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I guess they all got their free phones.


10 posted on 09/30/2012 4:29:37 AM PDT by FES0844
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Maybe they’re counting conservatives as 3/5ths of a vote.


11 posted on 09/30/2012 4:29:41 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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considering Ohio only went for Obama in 2008 by 4.4%, this poll is total and utter garbage. They expecting it to be +9 in 2012, hilarious.


12 posted on 09/30/2012 4:31:49 AM PDT by sunmars
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Party breakdown:

Dem 43.25%

Rep 34.53%

Ind 19.57%

Other 2.76%

Another nonsense poll.


13 posted on 09/30/2012 4:31:55 AM PDT by Red Steel
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considering Ohio in 2010 went 38% Dem, 39% GOP, this is a laugh.


14 posted on 09/30/2012 4:34:26 AM PDT by sunmars
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how many Obama phones are there in polling area??

reports are that everyone who has one, has more than one.


15 posted on 09/30/2012 4:38:19 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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how many Obama phones are there in polling area??

reports are that everyone who has one, has more than one.


16 posted on 09/30/2012 4:38:56 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Not just that, the county which is “northeast’ (where most of the voters were polled) includes heavily democratic and considerably more dependant Cleveland. Columbus is in the middle of the state. Why do you suppose a central Ohio newspaper would poll northeast Ohio and not Columbus??? (sarc)


17 posted on 09/30/2012 4:39:50 AM PDT by marstegreg
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and the caveat that Ohio has lost over 400,000 dems in the last 4 years seems to be lost on these pollsters and independents in Ohio up by 500,000 but they are still sticking to the 2008 models.


18 posted on 09/30/2012 4:43:22 AM PDT by sunmars
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"The mail poll of 1,662 randomly selected likely Ohio voters Sept. 19 through yesterday has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points."

It says "1662 registered voters" at the bottom of the graphic. Do they even know what they polled? By mail?

19 posted on 09/30/2012 4:44:00 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: sushiman

Probably not 97 percent; more like 99.6 percent or so.


20 posted on 09/30/2012 4:44:31 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( Who among us has not erred? Akin's the One!)
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