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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:37 PM Original message |
Why did Newsweek's poll interview 374 Republicans & only 303 Democrats? |
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okieinpain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. you beat me to it, I was looking at the sample, why are dems |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. In reality, Democrats outnumber Republicans by 4-5% |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. why indeed. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. It might be random sampling, which has it's problems. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. First decent criticism of the /Newsweek/ poll that I've seen. |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. Good. Let 'em believe their skewed numbers |
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A_Possum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Time poll is the same |
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progressivebydesign (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. That's really odd.. |
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patdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
7. That is 23% more republicans than Democrats??? WHY???? |
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troublemaker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 03:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. Republicans are MORE LIKELY TO BE HOME DURING THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
8. How else could they show the chimp with |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because they wanted to give Junior Birdman a bounce |
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WiseMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. Friends, ALL modern polls use weighting to arrive at statistically |
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TheStateChief (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Exactly...I agree...but I can't find the weighting...can you? |
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WiseMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. I agree. But it is standard analytic proceedure to plug in the weights |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:04 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. There is little evidence that they did. If they had, Bush would have only |
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patdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 03:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. Has gobbledegook served you all your life??? |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Give me proof that they re-weighted it. |
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Frodo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 01:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Newsweek doesn't balance by party affiliation. Nor does the LA Times. |
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DemMother (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. It's probably also why they poll in the middle of a convention |
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progressivebydesign (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. Independents skew Republican. |
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gohawks (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. Newsweek: 42% polled were military households |
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gatorboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. That segment makes the polling very fishy to me.... |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. Does anyone know where one can get the internals for other Newsweek polls? |
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gohawks (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 03:01 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Newsweek Internals.... at |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 05:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. Thanks, but I can only find the internals for the most recent poll there. |
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betterdeadthanred (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
23. Which is exactly the reason people need to chill |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
25. this is another skewed poll--indeed why interview 71 more Reps |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
26. If you subtract 71 Repubs from the poll, it subtracts 7%... |
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troublemaker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 03:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. . |
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troublemaker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-04-04 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. Their defense is that a purely random sampling is the only |
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