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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:38 PM Sep 2012

Gravis Marketing is fucking up all the polling averages

Who are they and what standing do they have to poll?

They are worse than Rasmussen and Zogby (and that's BAD).

They know that RCP and all the other political sites pool the polling averages, so they parachute in with a pro-Romney poll every time a real pollster unveils a poll showing Obama leading in a state.

DU, Nate Silver, RCP and other political sites need to stop including their polls and pretend like they don't exist.

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Gravis Marketing is fucking up all the polling averages (Original Post) bluestateguy Sep 2012 OP

I believe that is their specific intention: to skew the polls to minimize Obamas leads. Raster Sep 2012 #1

Thank you! Raine1967 Sep 2012 #3

This was the first find, which I just now see. Good catch Raster. grantcart Oct 2012 #5

deleting my comment. Raine1967 Sep 2012 #2

Never heard of them Hutzpa Sep 2012 #4

Raster

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1. I believe that is their specific intention: to skew the polls to minimize Obamas leads.

Reply to bluestateguy (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:56 PM

Sep 2012

I further believe they are thinly-veiled rethuglican front, even though they say they are non-partisan. Their actions demonstrate no such thing.

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From the Angry Bear Blog:

http://www.angrybearblog.com/2012/09/gravis-marketing-polls-and-reporting-ii.html

After that too long introduction, I have an addition to the list Gravis Marketing. People much better informed than I about polls and pollsters haven't heard of them. They have a Republican house effect. according to Nate Silver Importantly, Silver only partially removes house effects from his averages, and other aggregators don't remove them at all.