CNN: Gallup Poll was an outlier - Democratic Underground

quaoar

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:38 PM
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CNN: Gallup Poll was an outlier

Miles O'Brien just interviewed Walter Shapiro of USA Today.

Shapiro said that the Gallup Poll showing Bush ahead by 13 was probably an outlier. O'Brien then pointed out that Shapiro's paper was "trumpeting" that poll in its paper today.

And Shapiro just kind of shrugged and then talked about all the problems with polls, including not calling cell-phone users.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:40 PM
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1. the media got caught folks

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berner59

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:43 PM
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3. what's an outlier???

I know it's been posted here before...is it a push poll or an uneven numbers of repubs??

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Screaming Lord Byron

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:44 PM
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6. A rogue poll.

You know how they always say 'correct to within 3.5 points, 19 times out of 20'? This is time number 20.

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berner59

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:50 PM
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8. thanks...

Has Gallop done this before?? Don't they run the risk of being not trusted or has that been established already...I'm guessing yes...

I do think the young vote is being totally ignored...why don't poll people go to colleges and conduct polls??

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:44 PM
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7. Do we know the number of Repugs, Dems, Indies included or have

any other specific information on the methodology of the poll?

It was easy to see the problem with the Newsweek and Time polls when you could see they overrepresented Republicans.

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DemNoir

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:43 PM
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2. Outlier is putting it mildly

Its orbiting a different star.

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MoonRiver

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:43 PM
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4. Do ya think that CNN.coN is getting a little concerned

about losing the viewership of the entire Democratic Party? :D

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BlueNomad

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:44 PM
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5. Yes..

Edited on Fri Sep-17-04 01:44 PM by BlueNomad

and interestingly enough Susan Page of USAT was on NPR Diane Rehm today and in the part I caught she was laughingly talking about her other favorite polls and seemed to be distancing herself major--ly....

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lancdem

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:51 PM
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9. That's pretty bad

You have USA Today reporters calling their own polls garbage. Wow.

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NoBorders

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:53 PM
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10. Nice to see CNN report this

I love the arrogant quotes from Dowd and others in the article about how screwed the dems are based on this faulty poll.

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Fri Sep-17-04 02:23 PM
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11. On Franken, Joe Conason mentioned the CNN/USATODAY/GALLUP

poll 2 weeks before the 2000 selection: Bush 52%, Gore 39%.

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Beetwasher

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Fri Sep-17-04 02:26 PM
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12. BULL FUCKING SHIT!!! FUCK THEM!!

It was NOT an outliar!! It was a DELIBERATE and CONSCISOUS piece of propoganda meant to influence the election and to demoralize Bush's opposition.

Gallup is doing Rove's bidding. I am now thoroughly convinced.

FUCK them. They are traitorous pieces of fucking Nazi propogandistic garbage!

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