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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGet off Gallup's back葉hey were only biased for Romney by 7.2% on average
I mean, what's 7.2%?
Okay... yeah, it's just about the difference between George H W Bush and Mike Dukakis in 1988. (7.7%)
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-polls-fared-best-and-worst-in-the-2012-presidential-race/
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Get off Gallup's back葉hey were only biased for Romney by 7.2% on average (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Nov 2012
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bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)1. When pollsters are that wrong they should honorably go out of business
Yet, I bet you that Gallup will just go along their merry way that they have done nothing wrong.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)4. And they will probably be the most relied on pollster next cycle also
CenaW
(38 posts)2. To push the undecided voter to jump on the winning wagon.
PEW also published a last min poll. . . favoring Romney.
Gallup began upping Romney's numbers several weeks before the election.
You can track them.
All lies to create a false impression and to cover voter fraud, but the Republicans were caught in the act and . . . Democratic voters prevailed.
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)3. We'll still hear folksy Frank Newport
on NPR telling us what the real Republican deal is though.