Don't believe what you read

[barfo]

Although the mainstream media is reporting that Obama won the election, they are using a model of the election that looks too much like 2008. You have to unskew the voting results to get the right answer.

We'll see Romney in a landslide when the electoral college votes in December.

barfo

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's one thing to be a sore loser or a gloater when one wins.

But this is being a grade A asshole.

Gloating is one thing, barfo, but trying to make fun of people over it is another.

 

[Eastoff]

It's one thing to be a sore loser or a gloater when one wins.

But this is being a grade A asshole.

Gloating is one thing, barfo, but trying to make fun of people over it is another.

And the pundits that were flailing about how wrong the polls up until the election? What about them?

 

[barfo]

It's one thing to be a sore loser or a gloater when one wins.

But this is being a grade A asshole.

Gloating is one thing, barfo, but trying to make fun of people over it is another.

Sorry, if you willfully choose to believe nonsense like 'unskewed polls', you deserve to be made fun of.
And as for being an asshole, aren't you the guy who loves to call people sheep?

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

In 2008, the popular vote was Obama 69.5M to McCain 60M.

In 2012, the popular vote was Obama 60M to Romney 57M.

Not only did ~14M less people show up, this may be the first presidential election where the turnout was lower than the previous one.



Things changed - hurricane, Christie's kind words about Obama, late endorsements by Powell and Bloomberg - to change the makeup of the electorate. Romney went from a +5 lead in many polls to even or minus.

http://sportstwo.com/threads/222215-Unskewing-the-polls?p=2863143&viewfull=1#post2863143

I mentioned voter turnout suppression in a previous post. I live in California. Though I'm going to vote for Gary Johnson, my vote otherwise would not matter because Obama's clearly going to win the state by a huge margin. Republicans may as well stay at home. Hell, democrats may as well stay at home, too. By reporting bad polling numbers for Romney, don't you think many republicans will figure it's not going to matter, so they won't go vote?

 

[Rhal]

Polling is stupid because there are way to many of them now. Whatever way you swing you can find a poll to support it, new polling "companys" pop up like flys.
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[crowTrobot]

Things changed - hurricane, Christie's kind words about Obama, late endorsements by Powell and Bloomberg - to change the makeup of the electorate. Romney went from a +5 lead in many polls to even or minus.

As late as election day right wing pundits and bloggers were still spouting nonsense about the polls being universally wrong due to modelling turnout like 2008. FNC has had like 15-20 say that in the last few days. obviously all of them either had no clue what they were talking about and were just repeating what they heard from one side, had an agenda to keep certain people happy as long as possible before the shit hit the fan (Rove), or were just throwing total bullshit out there trying to get attention to feed their egos (Dick Morris).

 

[Denny Crane]

As late as election day right wing pundits and bloggers were still spouting nonsense about the polls being universally wrong due to modelling turnout like 2008. FNC has had like 15-20 say that in the last few days. obviously all of them either had no clue what they were talking about and were just repeating what they heard from one side, had an agenda to keep certain people happy as long as possible before the shit hit the fan (Rove), or were just throwing total bullshit out there trying to get attention to feed their egos (Dick Morris).

Polls are a funny thing. Do they measure current sentiment, or does reporting them drive the next day's poll results?