I see almost no anecdotal evidence (i.e. I run across very few people who vocally support Obama).
Then again I generally don’t travel in those circles.
After considering everything, author concludes thusly:
(1) Are the polls producing biased and inaccurate findings? Yes, in far too many cases;
(2) Are polling organizations deliberately producing misleading results? With reservation, Probably no;
(3) Are polling firms in cahoots with Obama, the MSM, and liberal/progressive democrats? Probably no;
(4) Does the MSM use polling selectively to promote Barack Obama and other Democrat office seekers? Categorically yes; and
(5) Will the MSM’s bashing of Romney using polls damage his presidential chances? a No, but with reservation.
If you disagree with the author’s conclusions, please tell us how and why he is wrong...
Sure, just like people believe in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.
I believe the polls, enough. If you accumulate the poll results, Romney is not making his sale well enough and he needs to spend his money and vigorously go after his goal.
Also, with today’s voters, nothing “goes without saying”. Like, to Romney, it might go without saying that free enterprise is part of what makes America what it is. But for voters who have been poorly taught or have mixed up their priorities, keep spelling out these basics in easy terms, over and over, and make it clear that those basics are so much better, and so much more urgent, than what the other guy has.
I imagine they coulkd be believed if you only consider those that actually took part in it, but since the results vary widely even with the same questions, I doubt it.
I imagine they coulkd be believed if you only consider those that actually took part in it, but since the results vary widely even with the same questions, I doubt it.
When you are down in the polls campaign like you believe them.
When you are up in the polls campaign like you don’t believe them.
In a column by Michael Barone he said the polling response rate those asked to participate in poll in 1997 was 37%. In 2012 it’s now 9%.
We tend to rationalize what is wrong with the sampling methods but always miss the ultimate issue. Weak candidates can't win. We've had our share.
President Reagan won because he had the "Shining city on the hill vision" that the country loved and needed. Frankly, I'm not inspired by arguments about vouchers.
Current polls are not precise and reflect questionable assumptions and wishful thinking on the part of the mainstream media pollsters, who are in the bag for their Golden Boy, Obama. Polls are weighted averages of people who respond to telephone surveys. People who are at home to respond to telephone surveys are mostly the unemployed and elderly - hardly a representative sample of voters. The only vote that counts is the one on Election Day, so get your a$$ to the polls and VOTE - your Life, Liberty and Property may well depend on it.
Dick Morris explained all this on O’Reilly last week and predicted Obama will lose - BIG!
The polls have been skewed and lying for my entire voting lifetime.
Carter was 8 points ahead of Reagan...
Dukakis was 17 points ahead of Bush...
Gore was 18 points ahead of Bush II...
Kerry was also 18 points ahead of Bush II...
NOW THIS FRAUD!
I can’t wait for the Obama Riots.
With all the numbers floating around here is one which may have great significance.
Apparently less than one in ten contacted are even willing to talk to pollsters. Over ninety percent tell ‘em to shove it. Thus, a huge landslide could be utterly undetectable by a polling operation actually looking for the truth.
[Can the Polls Be Believed?]
They are, desperately, trying to lure Conservatives away from even thinking about the political movement in 2010 and they use their pollsters to accomplish that. Their complicit pollsters are doing everything possible to please their customers... the media... the newspapers... the pundits...television anchors... liberals... and rino members of Congress. It is an all out assault to undermine American values and beliefs. THEIR movement would be the envy of the most ardent propagandist.
They all will point to the polls to panic, discourage and dispirit members of Conservatives and grass roots Americans who were responsible for our 2010 political movement. They saturate the airwaves, newspapers, all the sources easily available to them, to proclaim our polls are accurate because ALL POLLS are showing the same data...it is indisputable proof that ‘this election is a dead heat’ or ‘the president has surged ahead in the swing states’ or ‘this election is all but over’.
Of course, ALL THE POLLS are showing the same indisputable proof, they have to validate each others ‘professional integrity’ by staying on the same page, don’t they? I mean, how would it look to the public if wildly different data suddenly emerged out of nowhere with no +dems, no + rep? They can’t and won’t let that happen, it would just cause confusion amongst the masses and may even cause them to question their...collective indisputable proof. In short, they would lose the power to influence the direction of our politics.
IMO...Ret