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arely staircase

(12,482 posts) Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:52 AM Aug 2012

Obama Gets Good News In Swing States,

Leads In Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania: Quinnipiac Polls

The new surveys, conducted jointly by Quinnipiac University, CBS News and The New York Times, show Obama leading Romney by six percentage points in the crucial swing states of Ohio and Florida, and by a wider margin in Pennsylvania.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/obama-swing-states-poll_n_1727340.html

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Obama Gets Good News In Swing States, (Original Post) arely staircase Aug 2012 OP

Now they must do something to ensure that those 6 points in Ohio KurtNYC Aug 2012 #1

I looked at the internals. They over sampled Democrats by an average of 9% in each poll SlimJimmy Aug 2012 #2

KurtNYC

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1. Now they must do something to ensure that those 6 points in Ohio

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:54 AM

Aug 2012

don't disappear down a black well on election eve.

SlimJimmy

(3,180 posts)

2. I looked at the internals. They over sampled Democrats by an average of 9% in each poll

Reply to KurtNYC (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 01:18 PM

Aug 2012

I really wish they would stop doing that. The good news, they have finally started using likely voters (which I have advocated here at DU for at least two months) Now they need to accurately sample the electorate.

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