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2016 Postmortem

Marzupialis

(398 posts) Sun Jun 17, 2012, 10:54 AM Jun 2012

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Gallup tracking poll criticized; said to underestimate support for Obama

The prestigious Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com says Gallup tracking underrepresented Hispanics and blacks in their samples, resulting in support for Obama that is smaller than other pollsters combined. The article is very long. Here's the link. Very interesting stuff.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/gallup-poll-race-barack-obama_n_1589937.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

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Gallup tracking poll criticized; said to underestimate support for Obama (Original Post) Marzupialis Jun 2012 OP

IMHO, it's been a few years since Gallup was all that trustworthy...nt Wounded Bear Jun 2012 #1

Frank Newport should have his own show on Fox BeyondGeography Jun 2012 #2

Well Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2012 #3

Not surprising. DCBob Jun 2012 #4

Wounded Bear

(58,755 posts)

1. IMHO, it's been a few years since Gallup was all that trustworthy...nt

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 11:04 AM

Jun 2012

BeyondGeography

(39,388 posts)

2. Frank Newport should have his own show on Fox

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 11:09 AM

Jun 2012

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,450 posts)

3. Well

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 11:14 AM

Jun 2012

If that's true then when he's having a good day on Gallup, it's actually a very good day!

DCBob

(24,689 posts)

4. Not surprising.

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2012, 11:45 AM

Jun 2012

Polling is easily manilpulated to get the desired result.

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