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  • Poll: Trump up double digits among N.C. independents

    08/28/2016 5:26:18 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 20 replies
    washingtonexaminer.com ^ | August 24, 2016 | By GABBY MORRONGIELLO
    Donald Trump carries a 14-point lead over Hillary Clinton among North Carolina's independent voter population but still trails the former secretary of state by 2 percentage points overall, a new Monmouth University shows. Clinton leads Trump 44 to 42 percent among North Carolinians who are likely to vote in the November election, while 7 percent of voters back Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and 6 percent remain undecided. While the GOP presidential nominee lags far behind Clinton among black, Hispanic and Asian voters (76 to 13 percent), he draws 44 percent support among independents to Clinton's 30 percent. Trump also bests...
  • Nate Silver: Are Democrats disadvantaged by (gasp) skewed polls?

    10/15/2014 8:09:45 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    Hotair ^ | 10/15/2014 | Noah Rothman
    During the 2012 election, and to a lesser extent in the 2010 cycle, it became popular for poll-watchers on the right to dig into the sample data of individual polls, compare that sample available exit polling, and apply some judgment as to whether or not that poll was likely to accurately reflect the results on Election Day. In 2012, however, too many on the right began reflexively engaging in this practice for every poll with the aim of diving preferred results out of an otherwise disappointing poll. A few thoughtless types on the left would shriek, and not without...
  • "Interesting polling numbers from Ohio" (article @ unskewedpolls.com - why not to fear for OHIO)

    10/24/2012 4:14:38 PM PDT · by HannibalHamlinJr · 21 replies
    unskewedpolls.com ^ | Oct 24 2012 | DEAN CHAMBERS
    This is a good article & summary, posted TODAY, for people: 1. Freaking Out about Ohio polls that are slow to move ... 2. Summary of Ras, SurveyUSA, Gravis & Soffolk latest OH polls... 3. Explanation of why OHIO is not as easy to unskew 4. If the election were held today, RR wins. to comply with excerpt rules: unskewedpolls.com examiner.com
  • SPIN THOSE POLLS! SPIN THOSE POLLS! (Do not vote in any of the online polls tonight)

    10/13/2004 12:14:04 PM PDT · by vmivol00 · 222 replies · 18,546+ views
    Kerry Spot ^ | Jim Geraghty
    SPIN THOSE POLLS! SPIN THOSE POLLS! [10/13 02:50 PM] UPI reports on the efforts to spin online polls and mass-mailed letters to the editor. President George W. Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry will walk across the stage Wednesday night and greet each other at the beginning of the third and final presidential debate. Already, across the country, e-mail messages are arriving in newsroom inboxes declaring a winner. A new form of spam is emerging this fall, called debate-spin spam, experts told UPI's The Web. The veracity of the e-mail messages being sent as letters to the editor is coming...