[cherry]

BS!

[InterceptPoint]

Everyone should read the very last line in the full article. Here it is:

“ The poll is weighted by age and race; it is not weighted by party identification.”

So what is the D/R/I mix? Who knows. A worthless poll IMHO.

[dupree]

Fox Polls are one of the worst. I can’t believe they don’t weight the polls according to party ID when it’s this close to an election. The bad part about this is every news story will use this poll like it’s accurate and not mention the ID question.

We need to bombard their website with nasty emails, especially Bret Baier, who pays attention to party ID when he reports on the polls.

[Williams]

Sure, gotta have more of Obama/Biden

[gov_bean_ counter]

From Wiki...

Cognitive dissonance is the term used in modern psychology to describe the state of holding two or more conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously.

[qman]

I calling shinanigans!!

[qman]

I’m calling shinanigans!!

[Theodore R.]

Is it true that Romney has hired mostly failed McPain staffers to manage his campaign? It sounds increasingly like Romney is waiting for McPain to say somthing nice about him.

[Mr. Jeeves]

But again, even in the slanted polls, Obama is stuck at 47-48%. I have a feeling that is exactly what he is going to get on Election Day. Anybody undecided at this point has already decided they are not voting for Obama.

[Mogollon]

Guess Fox News is tired of beating all the other news channels year after year so they are tauting rigged polls just like CNNCBSNBCNYTETC.

FNC's credibility has been slipping badly lately...BOR called Rush an assassin a few days ago. Sean, Laura Ingraham, Neil Cavuto, and maybe a few guests are the only conservatives on FNC now.

[Yosemitest]

From the Raw Data

Methodology

The Fox News Poll is conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R).
The poll was conducted by telephone with live interviewers September 24-26, 2012 among a random national sample of 1,208 registered voters (RV).
A subsample of 1,092 has been defined as likely voters (LV), with a margin of sampling error of ± 3 percentage points.

Results are of registered voters, unless otherwise noted.

Landline and cell phone telephone numbers were randomly selected for inclusion in the survey using a probability proportionate to size method,
which means that phone numbers for each state are proportional to the number of voters in each state.

Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ± 3 percentage points.

Results from Fox News polls before February 2011 were conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corp.

Found on page 22 of the Raw FOX NEWS POLL Sep 24-26, 2012.

POLITICAL IDENTIFICATION
When you think about politics, do you think of yourself as a Democrat or a Republican?


24-26 Sep 12 LV
Democrat 41%, Republican 38%, Independent/ Other 20%, Don't Know/ Refused 1%
REGISTERED VOTER TREND
24-26 Sep 12 LV
Democrat 41%, Republican 36%, Independent/ Other 20%, Don't Know/ Refused 2%

Likely Voters total 1,092 people

Democrat 41% equals 447.72 or 448 people.
Republican 38% equals 414.96 or 415 people.
Independent/ Other 20% equals 218.4 or 218 people
Don't Know/ Refused 1% equals 10.92 or 11 people.

Registered Voters total 1,208 people.

Democrat 41% equals 495.28 or 495 people.
Republican 36% equals 434.88 or 435 people.
Independent/ Other 20% equals 241.6 or 242 people.
Don't Know/ Refused 2% equals 24.16 or 26 people.

SO .... they do weigh Democrats heavier than Republicans !

[snarkytart]

This was posted like 15 yesterday when it actually came out. And Fox poll had Kerry winning the day before election in 2004.

Now run off and find another bad poll or article that shows Romney is losing. I’ll be waiting.