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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 07:55 AM Original message |
Say it's NOV 08. Dem nominee up by 10 percent in all polls. Repub wins by 4 percent. |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. NH People Don't Trust Pollsters |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. here's a link to consider.... very disheartening. |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. Not so hard. The results were extreme that some Obama people stayed home thinking |
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iamjoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'm Suspicious Too |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Would it be too cynical to observe that people routinely tell the pollsters... |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. That's exactly what my dad thinks happened (eom) |
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the other one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
5. If it were to happen, there could be no challenge. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
6. Stop eating those grapes, they are sour. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:09 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Do you have any links to those exit polls? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:16 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Actually I don't. But I do intend to find them today. |
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Labors of Hercules (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
21. spot on. The media got it wrong... |
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arcos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
7. Polls have been notirously unreliable in the last few years, worldwide... |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:06 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. They are MORE unreliable in places that have |
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arcos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:18 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I agree with your concern... |
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EV_Ares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
9. There is something really weird about it. eom. |
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Perry Logan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
11. As someone has already pointed out, people are mixed up about polls vs. EXIT polls. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
15. Yeah, I have my suspicions too. And I'm not an Obama partisan either. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
16. the media will not probe their own polling |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:22 AM Response to Original message |
17. The exit polls match the results- It is very different from Ohio '04 |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
19. ALL of the polls did not get it wrong |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
20. "Well, it looks like voters may have SAID they support a black/woman candidate"... |
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INdemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. The national polls will be more accurate because any pollster that |
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