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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
KEYWORDS: 2012poll; 2012polls; alteredtitle; poll; poll2012; sourcetitlenoturl
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:19:01 AM PDT
by
timlot
To: timlot
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:22:29 AM PDT
by
Red Steel
To: timlot
There’s only two ways Obama takes a lead...more Dem voters or he is winning over independents. Two different issues going forward.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:23:29 AM PDT
by
ez
(When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
To: timlot
The "mail poll" is the last line of the article.
Who participates in a mail in poll? Why?
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:24:05 AM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
To: timlot
Check www.unskewedpolls.com for a supposedly non partisan view.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:24:58 AM PDT
by
duckman
(I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
To: Red Steel
Yeah, with this sample, Strickland would be Governor.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:25:21 AM PDT
by
ez
(When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:28:18 AM PDT
by
sunmars
To: Red Steel
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!
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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..")
To: Red Steel
Black 97 % for Obama ...And whites are the racists , right ?
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:29:37 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: timlot
I guess they all got their free phones.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:29:37 AM PDT
by
FES0844
To: timlot
Maybe they’re counting conservatives as 3/5ths of a vote.
To: clearcarbon
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.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:31:49 AM PDT
by
sunmars
To: Red Steel
Party breakdown:
Dem 43.25%
Rep 34.53%
Ind 19.57%
Other 2.76%
Another nonsense poll.
To: Red Steel
considering Ohio in 2010 went 38% Dem, 39% GOP, this is a laugh.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:34:26 AM PDT
by
sunmars
To: timlot
how many Obama phones are there in polling area??
reports are that everyone who has one, has more than one.
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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.)
To: timlot
how many Obama phones are there in polling area??
reports are that everyone who has one, has more than one.
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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.)
To: Red Steel
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)
To: marstegreg
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.
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posted on
09/30/2012 4:43:22 AM PDT
by
sunmars
To: Red Steel
"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?
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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)
To: sushiman
Probably not 97 percent; more like 99.6 percent or so.
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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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