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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 05:23 PM
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POLITICO needs to stay the fuck out of the Polling Business
They have yet to establish credibility in the news business, let alone
trying to get in on the News Media commissioned polling business:

When one is off by a lot comparitively speaking, its time to go back to the drawing board,
and biden one's time!

Debate exclusive: Obama wins by a hair
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081016/pl_politico/14618

last sentence, "Tonight’s poll is the first post-debate survey commissioned by Politico and conducted by InsiderAdvantage."

:eyes:
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 05:31 PM
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1. Fuck Them!
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but let them under-count or fudge the numbers.

It's far better that we poll lower than the actual results than the other way around.

None of us wants to be standing around on the Fifth of November saying, "WTF happened, we were looking soooo good?!"

:patriot:
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 05:39 PM
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3. If their poll results would have been close to the others,
that might have been one thing, but they had Indies going to McCain. You know that ain't so.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 05:36 PM
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2. Politico is a right wing machine. You're totally right. they need to try journalism first. n/t
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 05:53 PM
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4. Kick (There'll Be More Of That) & Recommend!
It is sickening to me how often they are cited on the net and on t.v. How old is politico? 2 -3 years, tops? Even here on DU (doesn't apply in this thread because it is critical of politico). Frenchie, THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!
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