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2016 Postmortem

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts) Fri May 11, 2012, 02:12 PM May 2012

Hm...one of these things is not like the other...

Can you figure it out?!?

Rasmussen Tracking: Romney +7
Gallup Tracking: Romney +1
Associated Press/GfK: Obama +8
Reuters/Ipsos: Obama +7
Politico/GWU/Battleground: Romney +1
IBD/CSM/TIPP: Obama +3

Did you guess which thing doesn't belong? If you guessed Rasmussen Tracking - well, then you're absolutely right! Good job!

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Hm...one of these things is not like the other... (Original Post) Drunken Irishman May 2012 OP

I guessed! Voice for Peace May 2012 #1

Yeah, I heard some AM radio today and they said how Romney was way up in the polls progressoid May 2012 #2

They don't even hide it. If you link to the poll and go to the tabs they will show you that they grantcart May 2012 #3

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)

1. I guessed!

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Original post)

Fri May 11, 2012, 03:31 PM

May 2012

progressoid

(49,945 posts)

2. Yeah, I heard some AM radio today and they said how Romney was way up in the polls

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Original post)

Fri May 11, 2012, 04:19 PM

May 2012

And I was all like WTF?

And then they said Rasmussen.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

3. They don't even hide it. If you link to the poll and go to the tabs they will show you that they

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Original post)

Fri May 11, 2012, 04:47 PM

May 2012

poll Republicans than Democrats.

Pollster.com just ran an article saying that they were downgrading both Rasmussed and Gallup because of their sampling method in their tracking polls.

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