Are Polls Skewed Too Heavily Against Republicans?

[Texas Lawyer]

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Source: The Atlantic

Probably not: As the chorus of complaints from the right grows louder, pollsters say there are simply more people who identify as Democrats.

It has become a recurring refrain among some Republican pundits and observers each time a new poll shows President Obama or downballot Democrats doing well: Check the party composition.
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"The intended effect is to suppress Republican turnout through media polling bias," McLaughlin said.

Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, New York, is unconvinced. "Why would pollsters want to look inaccurate?" Miringoff asked rhetorically in a phone interview.


Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/are-polls-skewed-too-heavily-against-republicans/262834/

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When the facts conflict with right-wing biases, the typical Repub will always attack the facts rather than reassess his or her biases.

[Panasonic]

1. The Republicans can go cherrypick their own polls

at www.unskewedpolls.com which is a Republican front for fake polls.

[Texas Lawyer]

8. www.unskewedpolls.com takes the party identification cross tabs and recalcualtes the poll to assume

that voter turnout will mirror 2010, but every pollster (except Rasumssen) knows that you cannot model turnout for a presidential year election based on data from a non-presidential year election.

[liberal N proud]

2. Republicans must be the most persecuted people in america.

Or at least that is what they want everyone to believe when they don't get their way.

[SoapBox]

14. ROFL

"...boo-hoo...I'm a Repuke and I'm picked on."

Tough it up, Pukes.

[SunSeeker]

3. Reality is skewed against Republicans. nt

[obxhead]

4. Waaa

[bluesbassman]

5. Good gawd these people can whine.

Maybe if their views and comments really reflected what the majority of ALL americans care about, they might be doing better.

[chuckstevens]

6. The Alibi

Election night 2012 on Faux News: "See; WE WERE RIGHT and all the polls were wrong." "The polls WERE too Democratically skewed."
I don't like this at all. They're trying to set the table for the "upset Romney/Ryan victory."

[Texas Lawyer]

11. The biggest irony of the "skewed polls" whiner-fest: FauxNews is one of the polling sources accused

of skewing their results for the benefit of President Obama.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. absolutely, just like daylight is skewed towards the sun.

[Akoto]

9. Link to my own post about unskewedpolls.com ...

Suffice to say, I question whether Mr. Chambers can offer unskewed polls.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251106983

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Repub party ID is tanking. There ARE fewer Republicans these days. Chart, link:

http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategist/2012/09/greenberg_gop_party_id_tanking.php

[Beartracks]

15. What's that bump-and-drop in May 2011?? n/t

[Major Nikon]

12. At least two of the major polls are owned by wingnuts

And the accuracy of those two have been called into question many times. Gallup's methods have also been called into question regarding how they weigh minority responses.

[DCBob]

13. A bunch of Republicans abandoned the party due to Bushitis.

They are now "Independents". So if you add up the Repubs and the IndyPubs you get a much larger sampling.. even larger than the Democrats.

[muriel_volestrangler]

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