2016 Postmortem

grantcart

(53,061 posts) Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:40 PM Oct 2012

i don't expect RCP to be aware of this but Zogby is now a right wing pollster

Zogby sold his polling outfit to a Brazillian company and NewsMax was bright enough to hire them to do a poll "their way".

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/zogby-president-obama-romney/2012/10/17/id/460344

I am sure that you will see it listed as a Democratic Pollster because in fact it was.

Before Zogby sold it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOPE_Zogby_International

Nate does call them the worst pollster in the world.

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i don't expect RCP to be aware of this but Zogby is now a right wing pollster (Original Post) grantcart Oct 2012 OP

Zogby's polling looks decent for Obama so far though TroyD Oct 2012 #1

Before I look at the numbers I look at who they are grantcart Oct 2012 #2

K&R flamingdem Oct 2012 #3

Kick... MuhkRahker Oct 2012 #4

The funny thing is, Zogby has Obama up in Florida and nationally... Drunken Irishman Oct 2012 #5

TroyD

(4,551 posts)

1. Zogby's polling looks decent for Obama so far though

Reply to grantcart (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:44 PM

Oct 2012

Yes?

I think Zogby ahead Obama ahead 3 nationally, and up in Florida last I checked.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

2. Before I look at the numbers I look at who they are

Reply to TroyD (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:13 PM

Oct 2012

John Zogby sold it to a Brazilian group so it no longer has anything to do with it.

A total interest in Zogby International was acquired by IBOPE Inteligência, a subsidiary of the IBOPE Group, a Brazilian multinational company specializing in media, market and opinion research in early 2012 cutting out John Zogby from the company he founded.

NewsMax is as dishonest an organization as you can find.

The way that you can hook people is by giving them a lot of pro Obama numbers and then when you have a 'good rep' turn the numbers down and bring people down.

Don't touch anything with NewsMax on it.