Presidential Contest Tight Nationally Ahead Of Second Debate [WaPo/ABC: Obama 49%; Romney 46%]

Washington Post ^ | October 14, 2012

[Lazamataz]

No.

The punctuation, and even the indentation, were also all lies.

[LS]

Folks, this is a +9 Dem sample. Romney is winning this, big, barring a major meltdown.

[LS]

You're right. We here at FR analyze EVERY poll in light of party samples. This one points to a big Romney victory. Romney according to this, Gallup, and Ras now with a correct sample all have Romney up 3-4. Thanks for posting more proof.

BTW, Ohio universally does 1/2 point better for Rs than the nation as a whole so this reaffirms that Romney wins OH.

[LS]

You're right. We here at FR analyze EVERY poll in light of party samples. This one points to a big Romney victory. Romney according to this, Gallup, and Ras now with a correct sample all have Romney up 3-4. Thanks for posting more proof.

BTW, Ohio universally does 1/2 point better for Rs than the nation as a whole so this reaffirms that Romney wins OH.

[LS]

“This is not Steelfish’s poll” -— and it isn’t the WaPo’s poll either. It is WaPo propaganda designed to prop up Obama’s corporate donors so they don’t bail.

[Perdogg]

Here you go troll

The party identification in the survey is D +9 (Dem 35, Rep 26, Ind 33). This compares to 2008 when party ID was D +7 (Dem 39, Rep 32, Ind 29) and 2004 when party ID split evenly (Dem 37, Rep 37, Ind 26).

[Salamander]

ee cummings wept

[JPG]

This is a D+9 poll and the LSM is happy to hype the result. Imagine how they'd react to an R+9 poll....they would be writhing on the floor, biting the fingers while screaming....."This poll is not fair to the democrats".

Sauce, goose, gander.

[Mike Darancette]

I happen to think that R/R has a good shot at pulling this off. But the race is close and the polls are swinging wildly within their margins of error so you are going to see lots of outliers in either direction. If the actual numbers are 47%-47% then given a margin of error of 3% a result of 50%-44% (either way) would still be within the margin of error. I believe that some polls are using this statistical fact to skew their results.

You have to watch the trend and right now it is trending R/R. I predict Obama will only get his 47% come election day.

[WOSG]

Dems - 34% + 15
Reps - 25% + 21
Ind - 36%

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Quick math tells you Romney is ACTUALLY winning indies by a ratio of 7 to 5, or 16 % points!

Nice internals for Romney.

[WOSG]

“In this case the “evil” of course is negative views.”

This is not negative news. It’s a biased poll.

This creates a negative impression even when its misleading, like adding to RCP poll averages. Big diff.

[Lazamataz]

I love you.

[Salamander]

I love you too, Laz.

:)

[Steelfish]

You need eyeball surgery since your lens is colored permanently with a rose tint. Folks like you are of little use where you simply dissect the internals when things aren’t going our way and happily accept the same poll when they show Romney in the lead. These are the same characteristics and cohorts of internals that WaPo and ABC have been using since Reagan. The same goes for Gallup (that Drudge displays on his front page) and Rasmussen. If the party ID is +9 Dems, so what? This is the reality of the national electorate.

[entropy12]

OK...hope you are supporting R+R as strongly as I am.
PEACE!

[Steelfish]

The current trash in the White House needs to be hauled away. Period.

[Lazamataz]

I was about to make an amend to you and state you are not a troll, but this post gives me pause. At this point in the game, it is wise to be realistic about Romney, but we also simply need Obama gone. R&R are the only people poised to do that.

I won't go as far as to say that not voting for R&R is voting for Obama -- that's bullcrap and I hated when people played that s**t on me -- but there are also indicators that R&R are not as bad as initially thought.