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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
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
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Ash_F
(5,861 posts)1. The election will speak to their credibility.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)2. Going with the polls that they wish they had
instead of the polls they have.
modrepub
(3,495 posts)3. How much you want to bet
they use these polls as proof that the dems fixed the election.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)4. It's the RepubliCON answer to Nate Silver.
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.