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ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 10:55 AM Oct 2015

So if the latest CNN poll is to be believed

And that's a big if since all individual polls must be taken with a grain of salt...Bernie got a bigger bounce from the debate despite the media pundit pro-Hillary onslaught and polls conducted in the aftermath of that onslaught?

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So if the latest CNN poll is to be believed (Original Post) ibegurpard Oct 2015 OP
That's funny. Fawke Em Oct 2015 #1
it is funny ibegurpard Oct 2015 #4
Yes. Fawke Em Oct 2015 #8
Telephone polls are horribly skewed to the more conservative candidate. Horribly skewed. stillwaiting Oct 2015 #2
The margin of error was 5%. mythology Oct 2015 #3
it also suggests ibegurpard Oct 2015 #5
Without Biden: 57-33. JaneyVee Oct 2015 #6
That's what the focus groups said in the first place Fumesucker Oct 2015 #7
Yep... WillyT Oct 2015 #9
But there was so much outrage ibegurpard Oct 2015 #10

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
4. it is funny
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 11:15 AM
Oct 2015

And it seems to indicate that the media pundit drumbeat as becoming increasingly ineffective.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
8. Yes.
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 11:26 AM
Oct 2015

That's why "I" cracked that funny grin.

(Note: I am not Jaime Foxx, but that was my attempt at an ironic smile. )

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)
2. Telephone polls are horribly skewed to the more conservative candidate. Horribly skewed.
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 11:07 AM
Oct 2015

Not a good reflection of reality.

We have to find a better way to fairly and accurately poll the American people.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
3. The margin of error was 5%.
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 11:13 AM
Oct 2015

Alone it really doesn't say much. It does suggest neither candidate changed much with the debate.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
7. That's what the focus groups said in the first place
Mon Oct 19, 2015, 11:24 AM
Oct 2015

Remember, Obama "lost" the first debate with Rmoney according to the pundits and much of DU but then everyone started talking about the bird...

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