This thread has basically turned pointless, it has pretty much just become "The dueling spamming Banjos." Can we not just all agree to post only 1 set of polls per week, per person, then only post pertinent information, which we all agree could possibly swing a poll? The last 100 pages probably consists of you 2 posting a poll, then vigorously defending that single poll for 9 pages, by posting even more irrelevant polls, followed by why the same poll should be discredited....... I dont mean to tell anyone how to run a thread, but this thread has really turned into a joke, where it just keeps going round and round in circles....... One guy posts a poll, the other guy attempts to discredit it, then the other guy posts 9 more polls, and the cycle repeats itself..... nothing has changed for 100+ pages......Since Romney became the GOP nominee the polls have remained almost the exact same..... ALMOST NOTHING HAS CHANGED....
I realize you are trying to do us a favor... but we need a consensus on what makes a good poll. As long as AK argues that using polls with 7-11 point bias to dems is legit... I will just have to argue with him. Its is difficult for me to see dem detritus and not point it out.
Romney leads in both of the most recent polls. Rasmussen Tracking 6/22 - 6/24 1500 LV 3.0 45 47 Romney +2 Gallup Tracking 6/18 - 6/24 3050 RV 2.0 45 46 Romney +1
This is not a good poll.Off by 6 on average,many of by 10 and the worse poll since 1998 Rasmussen was off by 40 points in one electon http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...rate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/ Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate Every election cycle has its winners and losers: not just the among the candidates, but also the pollsters. On Tuesday, polls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports â which released more than 100 surveys in the final three weeks of the campaign, including some commissioned under a subsidiary on behalf of Fox News â badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates. The 105 polls released in Senate and gubernatorial races by Rasmussen Reports and its subsidiary, Pulse Opinion Research, missed the final margin between the candidates by 5.8 points, a considerably higher figure than that achieved by most other pollsters. Some 13 of its polls missed by 10 or more points, including one in the Hawaii Senate race that missed the final margin between the candidates by 40 points, the largest error ever recorded in a general election in FiveThirtyEightâs database, which includes all polls conducted since 1998.
Polls Show Obama Crashing, Romney Surging http://www.dickmorris.com/polls-show-obama-crashing-romney-surging-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/
Note to Max we already covered this. Rasmuessen was T for 1st on the presidential election... yet AK always brings up this NY times stuff.