Again, The Polls Are Off: This Thing Is Far From Over

An interesting take re. polls from a blog: I was having dinner a night ago with a friend of mine who is a statistician for a well-regarded private polling company. They do some work for Republicans in California, but most of the work they do is for Democrats or Democrat-leaning operations (Unions, etc.). Anyway, her [...]

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Obama’s Lead Crumbling, An Electoral Guide

Here’s another analysis abut the inaccuracies of polls.   No doubt, Obama had built a lead. It was never 10-14 points like CBS or Newsweek wanted us to believe. It was probably in the 5-9 range, maximum, when you take reasonable weights on polling. Even pre-debate though, Obama’s lead was never large. He tends to [...]

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The Left’s Big Blunder: The disastrously counter-productive strategy of Obama’s supporters

Here is an essay on the left’s agenda and strategy to prop Obama and supress McCain’s supporters turn out.  It’s long but worth reading and very thought provoking. It’s no longer a matter of dispute that the mainstream media, overall, very strongly leans to the left. Over 90% of journalists classify themselves politically as “liberal” to [...]

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Ignore Polls, They Are So Slanted To Depress You

Hillbuzz has put one sticky post the last couple days warning readers that it is “an Eeyore-free zone.”  Sure we’ve seen the dire polls the last few weeks, but some experts in statistics and election history have repeatedly said how slanted and inaccurate the polls are.  They use proportion of party ID way beyond the [...]

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