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Skewed polls indicate Obama's in trouble - not Romney
American Thinker ^ | 09-27-2012 | Keith Edwards

Posted on 09/27/2012 6:05:41 PM PDT by GilGil

Naturally, if you support Obama and are treated every day to wall-to-wall news headlines showing Obama so far ahead of Romney in the polls that the election is basically over, then you're less likely to go out of your way to vote in November. So there's a really fine line between turning out your voters and turning off your voters when using polling data like this.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; polls; presidentialelection; romney
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To: Condor 63

I’m not sure, but I think early on Romney decided yard signs and bumper stickers weren’t too important. I see almost none for either candidate. Plus, both Obama and Romney charge for stickers and signs.


21 posted on 09/27/2012 6:40:40 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: NoobRep

People don’t riot when it’s cold out. Summer, yes; winter, no.


22 posted on 09/27/2012 6:42:14 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Read The Amateur. Says a lot. Kindle has it for 9 bucks, well worth it.


23 posted on 09/27/2012 6:42:14 PM PDT by juma (What i s the real answer ? Does anyone Know ?)
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To: GilGil

Skewed polls, sure, no question. What will you say though if after all these skewed polls Obama still wins? Honest question, what will you say?


24 posted on 09/27/2012 6:46:11 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: gotribe
Just because the poll results are skewed doesn’t mean Romney is ahead. He needs to get people excited.

AGREE!!!!!

A lot of people right now just simply do not like Mitt Romney. Many of them have already written him off completely.

Not sure how he turns that around at this point with just over a month left, but if he is to have a chance at winning, he needs to make it happen.

25 posted on 09/27/2012 6:46:31 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: Condor 63

How many bumper stickers did you see for the recent “Chick-fil-A Day”? None. But the lines of fed-up supporters wrapped around the buildings.

The real people who make America work, including MILLIONS of Christians who never even voted in 2008, will be out in droves to vote AGAINST Zero on November 6th. The lines of P.O’d Americans waiting in line to vote on that day will be Chick-fil-A Day to the third power!


26 posted on 09/27/2012 6:47:15 PM PDT by Tucker39 (O)
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To: Molon Labbie

I’m in Alabama and I haven’t seen one Obama bumper sticker. Not that it matters - Alabama will be red.


27 posted on 09/27/2012 6:48:01 PM PDT by imemyself
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The media and the pollsters are like herd animals on the Serengeti, if they leave the pack they might be eaten. Also think of safety in numbers, birds of a feather or a high school clique with all the ‘cool’ kids.


28 posted on 09/27/2012 6:50:00 PM PDT by JPG (Make it happen)
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To: GilGil

Aw fu. I didn’t say I’m staying home. Ya dumbchit.


29 posted on 09/27/2012 6:50:16 PM PDT by gotribe (WTF?)
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To: GilGil
I think the democrats are building their own defeat and we will see a huge wipe out in a month with a new President Romeny.

Who's Romeny? Is he on the ballot?

30 posted on 09/27/2012 6:51:11 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: GilGil; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle
It's about the Money....he needs money....

The Funders only Fund if they are convinced Obama is winning/1

31 posted on 09/27/2012 6:52:21 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: gotribe

Typical. If you are whistling by the graveyard no need to bother. Stay home. We can win this in a landslide without you.


32 posted on 09/27/2012 6:54:09 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: Condor 63

Don’t worry. Here in Moonbat Massachusetts, Obama stickers are non-existent, but were everywhere in ‘08. I did a poll here a week ago, and the phenomenon is national.

Yes, we are not enthusiastic about Romney, but we WILL crawl over broken glass to vote for him. Look at 2010, Wisconsin and Chick-fil-a.

The turnout models in these polls assume a Dem turnout three times greater than ‘08, when R +4 is reasonable. That’s a 14 point discrepancy.


33 posted on 09/27/2012 6:54:57 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Condor 63
Foxnews lsat night had Morris give a great explanation and rove also....

Do you thing the Democrats will have greater turnout than they did in 2008?

That is what some of the loftier poll numbers for Obama are using according to both Morris and karl Rove.

34 posted on 09/27/2012 6:56:43 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: OrangeHoof

Yes! He is Ron Paul’s mini me


35 posted on 09/27/2012 6:56:56 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: NoobRep

But what people who want riots—people like Frances Piven—are failing to accept is that nobody is fired up about Obama.

His loss will go down like the fizzle in a lukewarm cola.


36 posted on 09/27/2012 6:58:14 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Well put.


37 posted on 09/27/2012 6:58:22 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Same in Phoenix. There were O stickers all over my neighborhood. Not one to be found now.


38 posted on 09/27/2012 7:00:02 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil; Marine_Uncle; TigersEye; SunkenCiv
Related thread:

The Five False Assumptions Behind Poll-Skewing

39 posted on 09/27/2012 7:02:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: GilGil

Everyone is reporting this. Dem turnout will be WAY down. I also suspect that many will quietly pull the lever for Romney.

After the election, when they find out they were not alone, they’ll speak out.


40 posted on 09/27/2012 7:08:44 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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