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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWow! The CBS poll is so ridiculous, RCP isn't even including it in their average.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.htmlCBS/New York Times lost a lot of credibility with this poll today. As they should.
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Wow! The CBS poll is so ridiculous, RCP isn't even including it in their average. (Original Post)
Drunken Irishman
May 2012
OP
lamp_shade
(15,407 posts)1. Good. More to come on this I hope.
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. What did they do?
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thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)3. CBS poll had Rmoney ahead by 3 points
Rex
(65,616 posts)6. Geeez...
sad sad sad but what I expect from the M$M.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)4. I don't understand the mathematical averaging on RCP
if Romney is a total of +4
and Obama a total of +19
how can Obama's RCP average be +1.8?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)7. They're averaging the percentage, not the margins...
Obama | Romney
45-47
46-45
43-44
50-42
49-42
47-48
46-43
47-47
The average of each poll is: 46.6-44.8 in favor of Obama. That's a margin of 1.8.
Dawson Leery
(19,548 posts)5. This poll should be pulled.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)8. even CBS admitted that this was not a 'traditional' poll
it was based on call backs but it has garnered them a fair amount of attention
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)9. This was a warped poll and yet
they still used it on MSNBC today.
