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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:08 PM
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Zynx Poll: 91% of DUers cherrypick their polls.
"Mason-Dixon has Hillary winning California!!!!111" "Yeah, well Zogby has Obama winning!!!!111"

"Gallup has Obama and Hillary tied!11111" "Rasmussen has her pulling away!1!11"

For goodness sakes people, calm your asses down. Remember all those polls that were all over the place going into both '04 and '06 in so many races? In the end, some polls were right, some were wrong. The polls showed Rhode Island and Maryland possibly in the grasp of the Republicans in the Senate races, but both weren't even close. The polls in 2004 showed Bush competitive in New Jersey and Hawaii, but he wasn't. The polls in 2008 showed Obama with only a slight lead in SC compared to what he won by and Hillary trailing badly in NH.

Calm your asses down. Nobody's going to convince anybody how to vote with these lines of argumentation. If you want to make a prediction, look at the realclearpolitics.com aggregates and you can look at a whole body of polling.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:09 PM
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1. Wow. That is a shockingly low number.
;)
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:15 PM
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8. It might be as high as 100% or as low as 82%.
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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:10 PM
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2. I like the way this guy organizes his information.
He has all the latest polls but he also averages the last five. Of course, if one candidate is surging, the average might not be a good indicator, either.

www.electoral-vote.com
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:13 PM
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6. Yeah, I like the way he does it too.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:10 PM
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3. NO!!! Obama will win!!! I want it bad, so it must happen!!!!!
We're so sincere, how could he lose?

--p!
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:21 PM
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11. NO!!! Clinton will win!!! I want it bad, so it must happen!!!!!
I seem to recall reading an out-lier Clinton Rassmussen poll on here today.

Let's be fair. It's both sides.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:25 PM
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12. It sure is. Everyone does it.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 02:28 PM
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13. Recent poll numbers
Let's, indeed, be fair -- there are about twice as many online supporters of Obama as supporters of Hillary. Obama has twice as many people shouting that Hillary is losing and posting the same article five, six, eight times (the recent Zogby poll showing Obama ahead in CA has been posted at least eight times).

But if you look at lots of polls, you can easily see that several of them are now diverging, and there is still too great a number of undecided voters and mail-in ballots to make this easy to call.

--p!
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:10 PM
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4. A 111% win for anyone is very impressive and ....
impossible. So, we'll just have to wait until 2/5 to see what happens.
It's just two very l - o - n -g days away! :kick:
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never_get_over_it Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:20 PM
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10. Actually with electronic voting
not impossible at all.....

with electronic voting NOTHING is impossible....
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:11 PM
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5. LOL... wonderful post !
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:15 PM
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7. Don't worry, the cherry picked polls in your favor will come out later
then you won't feel so bad.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 01:17 PM
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9. If you are looking for a reliable SUPER TUESDAY poll, the best one available
is the one they report after the polls close!!!

I don't think anyone is gonna convince ANYONE to switch their votes at this stage of the game. I'm guessing that the VERY VAST majority of voters has a candidate in mind, and the purpose of all the pissing and moaning here is just to have a rollicking back-n-forth fight!!!!
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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-03-08 02:32 PM
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14. Zynx cites Mason-Dixon! Hillary leading! Zynx good! Wait! Zynx cites Zogby! Obama winning! Zynx bad!
nt
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