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To: Kaslin

Now I absolutely 100% WILL give you they want you to think it’s over. That much is clear. But that “the polls are skewed” thing is just so much idiocy. Doesn’t mean they can’t change. Doesn’t mean Romney can’t win. But skewed? No. They are not.


11 posted on 10/01/2012 1:54:41 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

I don’t think they’re intentionally skewed. Most of them just show a 2008 election model, with a D+8 advantage.

I don’t see that.


12 posted on 10/01/2012 2:09:51 PM PDT by Jaguarmike
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To: RIghtwardHo
But that “the polls are skewed” thing is just so much idiocy. Doesn’t mean they can’t change. Doesn’t mean Romney can’t win. But skewed? No. They are not.

You keep showing up on every Poll discussion, offering the same ridiculous claim of the MSM's objectivity...

Any poll that is conducted for political effect is skewed toward its desired outcome. That is why political campaigns pay for their own "internal" polls that are commissioned to tell them to unvarnished truth. Any observer can tell by the two campaigns' behavior that there is a major disconnect between (a) the media-sponsored polls that we hear about every day, and (b) what the campaigns themselves are obviously learning from their pollsters. Behind the Democrats' public bluff is the strong fecal smell of panic.

You don't have to be an expert to see that any poll which projects a Dem/Rep/Ind turnout mirroring 2008 is highly skewed toward Obama. The economy still stinks, fewer than 50% of Americans approve of Obama's performance, and there is a decided lack of enthusiasm among Democrats compared to Republicans this year. So do you really expect the D/R/I turnout to be the same as it was in the euphoric 2008 Obama election -- the high-water mark of Democrat turnout? That's the model upon which the pro-Obama MSM polls are based. So unless you believe 2010 never happened, that underlying model is skewed.

15 posted on 10/01/2012 3:07:51 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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