Live Polls Show Obama With Bigger Leads In Ohio
Source: TPM
How tight is the presidential race in Ohio? It depends whos polling.
Surveys of the Buckeye State have been all over the board in recent weeks as the election draws near. While most show President Obama with the lead, the size of it depends on whether the pollster was using human beings or robots to do the interviewing.
TPM compared the two methods and found that polls conducted by a live interviewer, the method widely considered to be the gold standard, have shown the President with larger leads than polls conducted by automated calls, which are prohibited from contacting people through cell phones. Since early September, live polls have shown Obama with an average lead of 4.5 percent in Ohio while robo-polls show him with an average lead of less than 2.
Ohio has been the most polled state of the presidential campaign since the national conventions, edging both Florida and Virginia for that distinction. The 44 polls conducted there since early-September include 22 done by automated calling, 16 performed by live phone interviews, five conducted online and one based on mail-in responses.
Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/ohio-polls-live-automated.php?ref=fpa
uwbadgerdem
(40 posts)The media is calling this a "statistical dead heat," but in places where its +4.5 for Romney, he's opening a "significant lead."
grantcart
(53,061 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)demgrrrll
(3,590 posts)i read about Hannity and Santorum talking on the radio both stating how they "hate" early voting because it leads to "fraud".
uwbadgerdem
(40 posts)but their definition of fraud is "democrats voting."
FarPoint
(12,426 posts)support your claim....
Never mind...you must of been refering to Hannity...his idea of voter fraud.
Okay
uwbadgerdem
(40 posts)They (Hannity and the like) equate votes for a democrat as fraudulent votes.
cheezmaka
(737 posts)Ohio=4 more years!
goclark
(30,404 posts)Justice4All1
(119 posts)with RMoney's campaign of lies, smoke & mirrors, obfuscation & more lies.
cheezmaka
(737 posts)Welcome to DU!
cheezmaka
(737 posts)Obama is up in Ohio, up in Wisconsin, and up in Iowa! It stays like this next week, IT'S OVER for Mitt...