More Screwey Polls From Gallup

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Likely Voters


Bush 52%



Kerry 44%



Registered Voters


Bush 54%


Kerry 41%


In previous Gallup polls Kerry was doing better among registered than likely voters...

[vickie]

1. I was watching this and turned off the tube. This is a joke.

Gallup will be run out of business once Kerry wins the election.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It's Counterintuitive For Starters...

The more you expand the universe of potential voters the better Democrats usually do...


Democrats usually poll better among adults than they do registered voters and better among registered voters than likely voters.

[Nightjock]

8. I'm with you Vickie

Every weekday I watch Inside Politics until I can't take thier BullS*** anymore.
I set a new record today when I turned it off after 2 minutes of them treating Gallup like it's the bible.
Than I came over to my computer for some sanity at DU.

[Lex]

2. What little reputation Gallup had is fast fading.

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They will irrelevant after the election in November, imho.

[Minimus]

4. and Gallup is the group picking the undecideds for the 3rd debate?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. They Are A Strange Polling Outfit..

As I have tried to illustrate their methodology defies explanation.

[durablend]

9. Gallup poll logic--simple...

They oversample Republicans to cook the numbers.

I'll bet when we see the demographics, it'll be something like 39% Republican, 32% Democrat, and whatever% other.

[newyawker99]

17. Hi bush_has_to_go!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jezebel]

6. She reported it as the sky is falling for Kerry, but if you look at even

their last poll, Kerry's #s are up 2 and Bush's down 2. The last Gallup had Bush 55 LV and Kerry 42 LV.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. He moved up five points in the horserace.

If the trend continues he'll be up by fifteen points by election day....


-:)

[flpoljunkie]

18. USA Today's headline is "Bush"s Lead Drops in Poll"

Yet CNN chose to see it an entirely different way, to Bush's advantage!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/front.htm

[sonicx]

10. I wonder why CNN didn't look at Gallup's trend chart for the 2000 race

and see the wild margin shifts and point out the poll that gave bush a 13 point lead a few days before the elction...

hmm...

[Nightjock]

11. How many more repugs did they poll this time?

[AndyTiedye]

12. Gallup Polls the Diebold Voting Machinez

[cthrumatrix]

16. the theft of the election begins with polls

[Renew Deal]

13. This is beyond absurd.

Kerry loses 5% in registered voters? Bullshit

[fujiyama]

14. They are so volatile

I don't think I'd pay attention to them even if Kerry was ahead. They simple don't make much sense.

[Doosh]

15. Gallup had Carter up 9 on October 9th

see how that turned out, they're always flip flopping all over the place with there polls. Gallup is out of step once again...