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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Fri Sep 28, 2012, 03:41 PM Sep 2012

There's A New Polling Site That Conservatives Are Excited About

Here's Why You Should Totally Ignore It

Making the rounds lately is a new site, UnskewedPolls.com.

The website is seeking to mitigate republican fears that Romney is slightly behind Obama by tweaking the partisan tilt rightward, rejecting polled data, and weighting them in favor of their candidate based on an extremely favorable formula from a Republican-leaning firm.

Now, you can believe it if you want, but you're deluding yourself and you deserve to know why.

Here is why UnskewedPolls may paint a charming picture for a conservative, but isn't statistically right.


http://www.businessinsider.com/unskewedpolls-2012-9#ixzz27nMSmQwn
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There's A New Polling Site That Conservatives Are Excited About (Original Post) SecularMotion Sep 2012 OP
The election will speak to their credibility. Ash_F Sep 2012 #1
Going with the polls that they wish they had louis-t Sep 2012 #2
How much you want to bet modrepub Sep 2012 #3
It's the RepubliCON answer to Nate Silver. fasttense Sep 2012 #4
 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
4. It's the RepubliCON answer to Nate Silver.
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:24 AM
Sep 2012

So typical of the CONS to offer up a fantasy to replace reality.

And.....

Romney is slightly behind? Really, only slightly? Maybe Business Insider has been looking at UnskewedPolls.com. slightly too long.

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