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Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 06:40 PM Sep 2012

The website where Mitt Romney’s winning in a landslide

At UnSkewed Polls, "liberal media bias" is removed from every survey that shows Obama ahead. Guess who wins?

By Alex Pareene


I present UnSkewedPolls.com, the best new website on the political Internet. UnSkewed Polls finally removes the “liberal media bias” from every single national opinion poll, and it turns out that “unskewing” them means “making it so that Romney is ahead by a lot.” Rick Perry approves!

The UnSkewed Average has Romney at 51.8 percent and Obama at a mere 44 percent. How does the genius behind UnSkewed Polls go about unskewing all the polls — like, for real, the vast majority of polls — that show the opposite result? Well, Dean Chambers, the polling genius behind the site, simply “re-weights” every single national poll to reflect his belief that Republicans are undersampled, based on right-leaning pollster Rasmussen’s partisan breakdown of the electorate. (Scott Rasmussen blurbs: “you cannot compare partisan weighting from one polling firm to another.”)

And obviously “re-weighting” every single poll to reflect an electorate made up of a plurality of self-identified Republicans also involves a bit of guesswork! Like, for example, sometimes polls don’t include crosstabs, so Mr. Unskewed just assumes they’re skewed with liberal media bias, and corrects accordingly.

Rasmussen’s party ID makeup does not remotely resemble any other organization’s party ID makeup. Every other organization finds that more Americans identify as Democrats or independents than Republicans, and that has been the case for years, even as Democratic Party affiliation has fallen. (Even in horrible years for Democrats, Gallup and Pew find more people identifying as Democrat than Republican.) “Correcting” polls to reflect Rasmussen’s outlier party ID finding basically means predicting Romney will win by a wider margin than any candidate from either party since 1988, which is … unlikely!

read more:

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/25/the_website_where_mitt_romneys_winning_in_a_landslide/


link to: UnSkewedPolls.com

http://www.unskewedpolls.com/
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The website where Mitt Romney’s winning in a landslide (Original Post) Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 OP
So when the final results show him to be ridiculously wrong LTR Sep 2012 #1
They will use the data to challenge the election liberal N proud Sep 2012 #2
Good. Let them think Romney is way ahead and they don't need to do anything. begin_within Sep 2012 #3
Always remember, there's a market for feeding people what they want to hear smorkingapple Sep 2012 #4
Faux News has a liberal bias? TexasCPA Sep 2012 #5

liberal N proud

(60,332 posts)
2. They will use the data to challenge the election
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:16 PM
Sep 2012

All the way to the Supreme Court.

They are desperate and will stop at nothing.

smorkingapple

(827 posts)
4. Always remember, there's a market for feeding people what they want to hear
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 07:57 PM
Sep 2012

How the fuck do you think Dick Morris has survived this long?

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