Gallup: Tied at 44% each - Democratic Underground

DavidDvorkin

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:07 PM
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Gallup: Tied at 44% each

Crap.

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Hope And Change

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:07 PM
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1. Obama will rise again.

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truthN08

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:12 PM
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7. I wish we could all stop

feeling good or bad based on these polls because they are useless. These polls are as accurate as weighing yourself daily because polls like weight are going to go up and down EVERY DAY. It's fluctuations. They are sampling a few people in the grand scheme of things. They aren't talking to college kids. They aren't talking to first time voters. Here in Nevada we've had a surge of new voter registration for dems. They are only calling people who have voted in the past not the new voters. We've got the youth and the new voters and that can't me measured.

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WeDidIt

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:13 PM
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10. Especially this poll

Last week was anomolous. Usually Obama goes down towards the end of the week and rises again in the beginning of the week.

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FrenchieCat

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:15 PM
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13. Personally, I don't give a shit about these polls.......

Just like the "Wag the Dog War" going on right now, this shit is just used to manipulate us....and I guess to some extent, that's what it does.....leads people by the nose! Too bad we are this susceptible to corporate nonsense.

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Teaser

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:09 PM
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2. It means nothing.

It's completely decorrelated from the Rasmussen results. Why sweat it?

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TheDonkey

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:17 PM
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17. there is no reasoning for a slide, other than the fact he is on vacation

and hasn't gotten the coverage that McClown has with this Georgia fiasco.

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mvd

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:10 PM
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3. These polls could make you crazy

Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 12:11 PM by mvd

:crazy:

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bdamomma

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:12 PM
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6. that is their whole purpose to drive the electorate crazy.

I do not trust the polls.

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Muttocracy

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:10 PM
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4. at least at the rounded-off-to-the-nearest %, McCain hasn't pulled ahead of Obama. nt

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fascisthunter

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:10 PM
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5. yes... and Corsi's book is a Best Seller

if one were to believe that

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FrenchieCat

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:12 PM
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8. ok Americans.......What-E-ver!

OBAMA

MCCAIN

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Benhurst

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:48 PM
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15. ...

:spank:

:rofl:

:hi:

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DavidDvorkin

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:58 PM
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16. Eeew!

That second one will haunt me.

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MattNC

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:13 PM
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9. it could be statistical noise

have to wait and see.

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highplainsdem

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:14 PM
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11. This is crazy. Rasmussen just showed Obama's lead over McCain increasing.

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high density

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:15 PM
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12. I wish there was a way to automatically hide threads

that contain "Gallup," "Rasmussen," or "Poll"

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DavidDvorkin

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Fri Aug-15-08 01:26 PM
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18. In the meantime,

thanks for helping to kick this one. :)

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kristopher

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:26 PM
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14. Strap on the tin foil and prepare for launch...

IF the abundant evidence of vote tampering is true...

then the main evidence of it occurring - polling - must be discredited.

IF those controlling such an ability to tamper with vote totals are facing a tight race, then their task to discredit the polling is limited to exit polls.

However, if the race were, in fact, not so close, then ...

Is anyone monitoring the methodology of the various polling agencies - especially Gallup?

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book_worm

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:08 PM
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19. do you see that it's up and down even according to your graph?

Obama will be up again and he still has a Vp selection and convention. Stop fretting. You post these every day and you should know some days he's up and some days he's down.

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DavidDvorkin

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:48 PM
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21. Of course I know

I've pointed that out from time to time, both with these graphs and the Rasmussen graphs.

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npincus

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:11 PM
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20. because BO's on vacation, and McCain's been saber-rattling

I think.

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DavidDvorkin

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Fri Aug-15-08 02:49 PM
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22. I think you're right

Being in the news increases name recognition and increases poll numbers. Not being in the news does the opposite.

Which by itself is a sad commentary on the voters, but that's a different matter.

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npincus

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Fri Aug-15-08 04:11 PM
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23. yeah, too bad that war-mongering shit still goes over.

Haven't people learned ANYTHING from the last disatstrous 8 years?

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