To: Jimmyclyde
The LA Times responded to the accusations that the poll is crap because of a massive oversampling of democrats. Their response (I am not making this up) was that in a national poll, party affiliation does not matter!
So I guess if a poll was conducted with 75% republicans the results would be valid and the LA Times would run it with a headline "Bush trounces Kerry in poll, getting the support of 75% of respondents"
9 posted on
06/15/2004 7:40:45 AM PDT by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: Phantom Lord
Hmmm. This can be viewed as positive for President Bush. If the sampling gave a 13% advantage of dems over conservatives, but only a 7% margin, the numbers ought to work out that in a fair sampling, Bush would be ahead. Someone with a better head for math and stats than I could work this out.....
24 posted on
06/15/2004 7:51:46 AM PDT by
NCLaw441
To: Phantom Lord
Someone needs to do a real poll now and contrast the results. If it comes out differently, the LAT is going to have a heck of a cred prob.
30 posted on
06/15/2004 8:09:05 AM PDT by
Paul_B
(Rest in peace, President Reagan. And thank you for all you've done.)
To: Phantom Lord
Yep, Brit Hume used that piece of LAT logic on his Grapevine segment late last week - he named the spokesperson too - think it was a woman.
56 posted on
06/15/2004 9:24:44 AM PDT by
Let's Roll
(Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)
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