Need Another Reason To Be Skeptical of Polls?
Democrat pollster John Zogby gets caught cooking the books again.
The big sin here is in not using a random sample. Polls are only a valid predictor of the voting population insofar as they represent a truly random sample (the entire population will be measured Tuesday).
In addition to all the usual problems with undersampling Republicans (weekend polls, calling at home, urban vs. suburban/rural, higher nonresponse rate for GOP voters, using registered instead of likely voters, etc), Zogby reused the same sample after screwing up the weighting (itself often slanting results to Democrats).
In short, Zogby's become a push-poller. He doesn't report what people think, he tries to influence what they think.
Exactly like the LWM.
Keep that in mind if you're planning on staying home Tuesday because you don't think your party has a chance and your vote won't matter.
The ONLY thing which matters in an election is voters casting ballots.
Get John Zogby and the other slick pollsters fired Wednesday morning----VOTE.
The big sin here is in not using a random sample. Polls are only a valid predictor of the voting population insofar as they represent a truly random sample (the entire population will be measured Tuesday).
In addition to all the usual problems with undersampling Republicans (weekend polls, calling at home, urban vs. suburban/rural, higher nonresponse rate for GOP voters, using registered instead of likely voters, etc), Zogby reused the same sample after screwing up the weighting (itself often slanting results to Democrats).
In short, Zogby's become a push-poller. He doesn't report what people think, he tries to influence what they think.
Exactly like the LWM.
Keep that in mind if you're planning on staying home Tuesday because you don't think your party has a chance and your vote won't matter.
The ONLY thing which matters in an election is voters casting ballots.
Get John Zogby and the other slick pollsters fired Wednesday morning----VOTE.
posted by Teflon at 6:17 PM
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2 Comments:
That's very disappointing. Having heard him as a regular guest on Hannity, I often felt he was a pretty good guy.
Just goes to show you that everyone's capable of anything, I guess.
How good it is to read these words from you- i'm thankful you changed your mind :0)!!
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