Gallup slaps down skewed polling claims

[DEATH ROW JOE]

Since Romney is getting crushed in the polls the "6000 year old earth" party is trying hard not to face reality. They even came up with a website which posts the "unskewed" polling numbers:

http://unskewedpolls.com/

If you remove the "skew", Romney goes from -4.3 to +7.4.

RCP Average 9/13 - 9/29 -- -- 48.9 44.6 Obama +4.3

UnSkewed Avg. 9/4 - 9/27 -- -- 44.1 51.5 Romney +7.4

Gallup says dream on shit bag. Stop lying.

The Recurring -- and Misleading -- Focus on Party Identification
Thursday, September 27, 2012

The discussion of the party identification composition of poll samples comes up in every presidential election with which I've been involved. Interested observers often opine that when a given poll shows that Candidate X is ahead, it cannot be correct because there is a higher percentage of voters who identify with Candidate X’s party in the sample than there should be, based on comparison to some previous standard.

There are several reasons why this is a faulty approach to evaluating a poll's results.

read the rest here:

http://pollingmatters.gallup.com/2012/0 ... us-on.html

Another article debunking the GOP nonsense:

Poll Averages Have No History of Consistent Partisan Bias

Since President Obama gained ground in the polls after the Democrats’ convention, it has been the Republicans’ turn to make the same accusations. Some have said that the polls are “oversampling” Democrats and producing results that are biased in Mr. Obama’s favor. One Web site, unskewedpolls.com, contends that even Fox News is part of the racket in what it says is a “trend of skewed polls that oversample Democratic voters to produce results favorable for the president.”

The criticisms are largely unsound, especially when couched in terms like “oversampling,” which implies that pollsters are deliberately rigging their samples.

But pollsters, at least if they are following the industry’s standard guidelines, do not choose how many Democrats, Republicans or independent voters to put into their samples — any more than they choose the number of voters for Mr. Obama or Mitt Romney. Instead, this is determined by the responses of the voters that they reach after calling random numbers from telephone directories or registered voter lists.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.co ... more-35258

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LOL....just like the Repukes think the earth is only 6000 years old and believe in talking snakes, unicorns, and the MYTHICAL Jesus is real their "skewed" polls is pure fantasy!

You saw how STUPID that fat slob Dick Morris looks like on Fox News saying Romney will win?