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2. Poll is only of people who watched the Speech

Wed Sep 11, 2013, 01:39 PM

Sep 2013

It was a good speech and I expected most who viewed it to view it favorably.

It appears they did.

These snap polls of viewers are important insofar they shape subsequent news coverage of the speech and thus have some effect on people who did not watch.

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The point of Obama's speech. [View all] ProSense Sep 2013 OP

69% of how many Americans? R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #1

Dismissing the poll doesn't invalidate the point. n/t ProSense Sep 2013 #3

Dismissing my point doesn't validate the poll. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #4

No, but I'm sure you know how polls work. ProSense Sep 2013 #6

Did you not post the poll numbers? My query was fairly simple. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #8

"69% of how many Americans?" ProSense Sep 2013 #9

You are well versed in not answering simple questions. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #11

You got the answer ProSense Sep 2013 #13

You gave no answer as usual; seeing how it doesn't fit in with R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #18

Not my problem you don't know how to ask a question. ProSense Sep 2013 #19

�It is shaped, sir, like itself, and is as broad as it hath breadth� R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #21

Holy shit, click on the damned poll! It tells you how many participants were polled. 11 Bravo Sep 2013 #31

Daneel, I like you, but your posts in this thread are truly inane cali Sep 2013 #39

take a freaking statistics class, man! Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #10

Is it really that hard to say how many people participated in the poll? R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #12

The President's own cabinet? Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #14

first, do you understand scientific sampling and confidence intervals? just checking. Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #15

I'm sure that CNN is very scientific and thorough...just like their reporting. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #20

it was not done by CNN. It was partially paid for by CNN. The polling company is reputable Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #23

And yet 50% of them didn't believe that PBO had made a R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #24

again. I don't think you understand how polling works. Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #27

"Gallup Reviews Methods After Failure to Predict Obama�s Win" R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #29

notice, yours has to do with predictive polling. and though wrong...was only off by Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #32

Thank you, thank you for the admision that polls are "inexact." I appreciate that. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #38

wow. that is why they calculate statistically a margin of error Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #40

because someone hates Obama.... VanillaRhapsody Sep 2013 #43

I see you're displaying your ignorance leftynyc Sep 2013 #34

. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #35

LOL - like I said leftynyc Sep 2013 #36

It really doesn't matter does it. The BIG guys, Russia, US, Syria, etal. are going to do what is lumpy Sep 2013 #33

Poll is only of people who watched the Speech cthulu2016 Sep 2013 #2

It was supposed to be advertisement for war. Marr Sep 2013 #5

Yes, ProSense Sep 2013 #7

EarlG gets it! Cha Sep 2013 #16

... Scurrilous Sep 2013 #17

Well done. Thanks. n/t ProSense Sep 2013 #22

Everyone Gets It, Some Will Just Never Admit It Because They Want Obama to Fail Skraxx Sep 2013 #26

They sure are twisting themselves into knots to seem like they Cha Sep 2013 #30

blah, blah, blah, war bigtree Sep 2013 #25

Question: ProSense Sep 2013 #28

depends on what's 'done' bigtree Sep 2013 #37

The point was specific to military action, but ProSense Sep 2013 #42

What seems to be missing from all this, is that Syria is a Russian block country. RC Sep 2013 #41

Russia can object ProSense Sep 2013 #44

As usual you missed the point. RC Sep 2013 #45

If the leader launched a chemical attack? ProSense Sep 2013 #49

Not in evidence. The question is. "What would happen if Russia bombed a US friendly country, like we RC Sep 2013 #51

89% of those polled were dressed like cherleaders RetroLounge Sep 2013 #46

No, the ridiculousness of Obama's speech Carolina Sep 2013 #47

I've seen that nonsense. n/t ProSense Sep 2013 #48

Well aren't you special Carolina Sep 2013 #50