Showing posts with label Polls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polls. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Polls For Sunday, September 30th
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Just Pretend
With recent polls showing the president with a ten point lead in Ohio, it seems only fitting that the party of unreality would create a new world in which Romney is actually leading in the polls.
Apparently, they don't like the way that the poll companies sample, thinking that there are actually less non white voters who are going to turn out this year (despite census evidence to the contrary), and so their polls are a more accurate reflection of reality. Of course, the forget that pollsters like Quinnipiac don't use apply any sort of corrections in sampling but, hey, what does reality matter anyway?
It makes me wonder...if the president wins, will they pretend that Romney won?
Apparently, they don't like the way that the poll companies sample, thinking that there are actually less non white voters who are going to turn out this year (despite census evidence to the contrary), and so their polls are a more accurate reflection of reality. Of course, the forget that pollsters like Quinnipiac don't use apply any sort of corrections in sampling but, hey, what does reality matter anyway?
It makes me wonder...if the president wins, will they pretend that Romney won?
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Three For Thursday (2)
Many of the Obama supporters I know are very worried about the president's low approval numbers of late (the low 40s). I'm concerned as well but when you consider that the question is "do you approve or disapprove of the way the president is handling his job?" there are clearly many liberals who don't approve.
Take one of my FB friends, Tim, for example. Here is his latest status update.
Barack Obama is a great Republican president ...for me to poop on.
Tim thinks that the president is a corporate shill just like Bush. He would be one of those who does not approve of the president.
The other reason Obama supporters shouldn't be as nervous about the poll numbers is this article I have been saving since last March.
The 2010 Census revealed that in the past decade the adult Latino population has nearly doubled in Nevada, Virginia, and North Carolina. Also, it's increased by 60 percent or more in two Midwestern battleground states, Indiana and Ohio.
Obama won all five of those states in 2008 — two of them by very narrow margins — and they are likely to be decisive in next year’s balloting.
National exit poll surveys in 2008 indicated that Obama won about two out of three Latino voters.Based on 2008 exit poll data, if Latino voters were subtracted from the total, Obama would have lost two of the states that he won: New Mexico and Indiana.
Since it's clear that the GOP is doing pretty much everything it can to alienate Latino voters, the president is going to benefit greatly from this demographic.
Take one of my FB friends, Tim, for example. Here is his latest status update.
Barack Obama is a great Republican president ...for me to poop on.
Tim thinks that the president is a corporate shill just like Bush. He would be one of those who does not approve of the president.
The other reason Obama supporters shouldn't be as nervous about the poll numbers is this article I have been saving since last March.
The 2010 Census revealed that in the past decade the adult Latino population has nearly doubled in Nevada, Virginia, and North Carolina. Also, it's increased by 60 percent or more in two Midwestern battleground states, Indiana and Ohio.
Obama won all five of those states in 2008 — two of them by very narrow margins — and they are likely to be decisive in next year’s balloting.
National exit poll surveys in 2008 indicated that Obama won about two out of three Latino voters.Based on 2008 exit poll data, if Latino voters were subtracted from the total, Obama would have lost two of the states that he won: New Mexico and Indiana.
Since it's clear that the GOP is doing pretty much everything it can to alienate Latino voters, the president is going to benefit greatly from this demographic.
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