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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Wed May 16, 2012, 02:25 PM May 2012

It should be mandated that when a poll is released, the pollster must indicate

demographics, whether it is a print or electronic poll, the number of people queried, who determined the questions, and if it paid the participants. There is some shaky stuff happening with these poll results, especially the one that purports that Mitten is leading Obama with the vote of women. No way!

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It should be mandated that when a poll is released, the pollster must indicate (Original Post) mfcorey1 May 2012 OP
All polling outfits have to do is call certain area codes at a certain time of the day..... FrenchieCat May 2012 #1
mitt is going to have liberalnationalist May 2012 #2
How do you know they don't? brooklynite May 2012 #3

FrenchieCat

(68,867 posts)
1. All polling outfits have to do is call certain area codes at a certain time of the day.....
Wed May 16, 2012, 02:50 PM
May 2012

to end up with the senior citizen women who are in love in Romney....
and the polls can show that Romney is leading in the women vote.

Manipulating polls is super easy if you know what demographics you
need to pull from in order to get it done.

 

liberalnationalist

(170 posts)
2. mitt is going to have
Wed May 16, 2012, 03:16 PM
May 2012

a full blown Slick Willard Raw Money fit the wednesday after the first tuesday this november

look at the state by state polls...Obama has a lock on just about 250 electors....all he needs is a combination of about 2-3 states extra and the combinations are in the hundreds on how he wins....Raw Money will not get over 200 and he will lose by 8-10 points nationally, so obama should get between 350-400 depending on turnout and once Obama is done with him he will be everything and more which America hates

by the end of the campaign Raw Moneys traitorist Mormanism will be synonimis with the terrorism of the taliban

brooklynite

(94,376 posts)
3. How do you know they don't?
Wed May 16, 2012, 04:04 PM
May 2012

Most polling sites publish a detailed report of their approach and findings. Most readers don't bother to look past the news headline.

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