Rasmussen Poll Says Hillary Doing Best in PA, but Data is Buried in Report
By Deb Cupples on May 23, 2008 at 11:08 PM in Current Affairs
Today, Rasmussen reports the following polling results regarding Pennsylvania’s presidential election in November 2008:.
| Clinton |
50% | …. | Obama | 45% |
| McCain | 39% | McCain | 43% |
Apparently, Hillary is doing far better against John McCain in Pennsylvania than Barack Obama is. Given that the margin of error is 4%, Obama and McCain are statistically tied.
Oddly, that’s not what Rasmussen’s headline indicates. The relevant part of the headline reads "Pennsylvania: Obama 45% McCain 43%."
No, it’s not a mis-print: though Hillary performed better, her name is not in the headline. In fact, Hillary isn’t even mentioned until the report’s seventh paragraph.
What are the chances that busy readers will actually get to Paragraph 7, if the first six paragraphs (plus the title) give readers the impression that they’ve already gotten the gist the report? Why read any further?
Incidentally, here’s the first part of Paragraph 7, which is almost half way through the report:
"In the unlikely event that Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic
Presidential Nomination, she leads McCain in Pennsylvania by eleven
percentage points, 50% to 39%. The former First Lady is viewed
favorably by 52% of voters in the state."
The Democrats still haven’t formally chosen a nominee, right? They haven’t yet figured out which candidate has the better chance of beating McCain in November?
And Pennsylvania still is a large, swing state — no? I’m just checking, because the way that Rasmussen’s report was written, I figured I might have missed a major news story today.
Over the last few months, I’ve grown accustomed to journalists acting as political campaigners, but I’ve often thought that major polling outfits at least try to conduct — and report — polling data in an objective way.
That way, the polling outfits, themselves, would not taint their future results by indirectly influencing the very public opinion that they purportedly seek to understand and describe.
I stand corrected. Perhaps we should just be grateful that Rasmussen bothered to include Hillary in the survey at all.
Memeorandum has commentary.
Rasmussen is a Republican. Think about it.
Clinton got more votes than Obama and she should be the nominee.
Gary,
I didn’t know that Rasmussen was an R. Hmmm.
Yeah, Scott Rasmussen is an evangelical conservative. A lot of pollsters can’t help but get in bed with the people they poll. Zogby is one example. Zogby’s family supports Obama.
I figured that Zogby supported Obama. I also think that his outfit might fudge numbers.
After his NH polls turned out to be so wrong, he started being careful. I can’t remember which election it was (though I remember that it was after Super Tuesday), Zogby had an outlier poll predicting Clinton would lose a state that everyone else thought she’d win.
A few days later (the day before the election), Zogby put out another poll that was a lot closer to the rest of the pack.
I couldn’t help but wondering.
Another thing that looks calculated, was their claiming that it looked very close, in states in which she had no chance.
It seems like this was done to get the Clintons to waste time campaigning in these states.
Campaigns do their own internal polling and base their actions on these findings. I doubt they are relying on what they read from the biased national pollsters.
I’m glad to know about Rasmussen and Zogby. I’d love to see a good story done on all the polling firms after this election that exposes them for their bias and to see how far off the mark they were all the way through this race. Then we could decide who is most accurate and least biased for future races.
John Zogby’s brother is James Zogby, president of American Arab Institute, heavily involved with Obama campaign.
Google James Zogby.
Hmmmm……..veeery interestink….
Zogby is in tank with Hussien Obama because he is a Lebanize American and an advocate of Arab Americans, and often criticizes our pro-Israeli’s policies.
Now thats what I call honest reporting by rasmussen. No the media and their wh)*es are not trying to scew the election are they!!
Hey {{Connie}} How’s the great Lone Star State?
Some one said something about forming another party earlier……. I think in a 3 way race, Barney is Perot.
Clinton wins again!!! LETS DO IT!
Yeah, polling has Clinton winning 22% in a three-way matchup against Obama and McCain, and she can definately win as an Independent Democrat.
Gary, do you have a link to that poll? I’d be very interested in taking a look.
Here you go: http://tinyurl.com/4mh94g (it’s a Rasmussen poll)
That Clinton already enjoys the support of the majority of PA supporters is significant. How can Democrats ignore this data?
Truthteller,
I wouldn’t even attempt to understand the minds of people like Howard Dean and Donna Brazile. INcidentally, have you seen the NQ commenter who came up with the handle “Donkey Brazziere”?
It still makes me laugh.
Anyway, I had contact with a superdelegate last week. I was incredibly polite, and he mentioned being relieved to have received an email from a Hillary supporter who wasn’t a “sore loser.”
Yes, even some superdels don’t grasp that the race is still going on. What does that tell you?
Then he went on to blast Hillary supporters who plan to support McCain if Obama becomes the nominee.
Thing is: I didn’t bring up any of that in my initial letter. He was just venting, and in a very emotional way.
Which brings me back to my point: I can’t fathom what’s going on in the minds of our DNC leaders, because I think there’s a lot of emotion fueling their thoughts and words.
Of course, I could be wrong.
I tend to suppose that, for the “still-up-for-grabs” superdelegates, their days must be somewhat like living in a heavily-trolled blog. Which is to try to say they are being pressured in all sorts of ways, subtle and not, all day long, months on end.
And they probably consume media and press heavily, too.
I wonder how many of them were born between about 1945 and 1957 (boomers), and thus have been subject to the shocks and cultural destruction all of their adult lives.
You said, “I can’t fathom what’s going on in the minds of our DNC leaders…” I think Senator Clinton (not to mention her husband) has some measure of what’s going on in their minds. She recently made a comment to the effect of, “and I don’t envy the position [they] are in.” She, by varying degrees of contrast, presently has the perspective which comes with firm principles, strength of character, and commitment to act in such a way as to bring about reform.
What seems obvious is that there’s nothing “super” about many of the superdelegates. They haven’t done their research and/or are easily enticed by $$$$ and swayed by the promise of who knows what else. I doubt they will do the job they are supposed to do: exercise (supreme) judgement and save the Democrats from electing a GE loser.
The Democrats, if they don’t nominate Hillary, will implode. Maybe then there will be a do-over and the caucausing/superdelegate/open election primary fiascos will be once and forever dead.
Apparently, more than a few of the undecided SDs have encouraged her to stay in. They are very concerned about his electability numbers, but there’s intense pressure to get on with the game, so to speak.
Ditto for her SDs who tell her to hold tight.
She didn’t need this bad publicity right now, but she’s human. The over-reaction means obviously that she’s hitting the sweet spot about voter rights.
Was this super delegate that railed against “sore losers” named Vince Powers?
I called the DNC last week and was referred to as a sore loser. And I said I was not a sore loser but a Democrat that was still not over Gore’s loss in 2000. Feeling ticked off because an election was stolen is not equivalent to being a sore loser. This guy said that Hillary signed a statement saying that the votes of MI and Fl would not count. I challenged that statement and he went and got the “so called statement” and lo and behold, the statement he read to me stated that Hillary agreed not to campaign in FL and MI. Duh! This guy was now beginning to stutter. I then requested that he ask Howard to schedule a news conference to give the actual facts of the situation in FL and MI. He said he would. I then said to him that if Howard Dean refuses to have a press conference to give the facts of the case, (as the mainstream media has the facts wrong) you can assume that the primary process is rigged by Dean and Brazile. I think this gave him alot to think about.
Amazing that they are having such inappropriate personal conversations with voters. Donna Brazile texted someone that HIllary’s supporters were “vile.”
I’ve never even remotely imagined the level of disrespect going on daily in this election. It’s appalling.
ONe of Hillary’s staffers DID agree to the FL/MI punishment. That is true.
At the time, nobody, not even Obama, could have predicted how close the race would be and how important this decision would become. Obama himself told FL supporters he would work to seat them.
So he’s lying a bit. Hillary’s exaggerating a bit. That’s politics.
Yes, his name is Vince. I forgot his last name. He was mostly polite to me (because I was super polite, factual and unemotional with him) BUT he ranted about other Hillary supporters in general.
I suspect — given the sore loser comment — that he is young. But I could be wrong.
Yeah he is an obama attack surrogate.
Accoring to Vince powers if you are not going to vote for obama you are a sore loser who does not care about the future of america.
Superdelegates shouldn’t be making comments like that. A Superdelegates’ decision should be based, solely, on who can win the general election. It sounds like the SD you spoke to is incapable if making an unbiased decision.
How did we need in up in this situation where we’re ALLEGEDLY stuck with a lemon of a candidate? The media. As Mark Halperin said months ago, the media is passionately behind Obama.
“How did we wind in up in this situation?”
Well, (as I think you know) it took some time and some doing.
Those would see the USA destroyed (or you can say the Hillary campaign destroyed), because it is the chief perceived potential threat to their plans for a free-trade, “globalist” empire run by cartels, and not by sovereign nation states regulating their looting, usury and genocide actions, will stop at nothing.
FDR (take out the more modern words) understood that very well. And he knew how to beat them. It’s still do-able, though more complex and different today.
When I was a young man, the citizens “owned the airwaves.” The FCC REGULATED them.
I worry that the SD’s may not have the courage to vote for the candidate who can best defeat McCain. Sen. Byrd, at his age, must be hungry for the opportunity to absolve himself of his self-perceived past sins (Klan mambership) by endorsing BO. Such thinking from liberal members of the Millionaire Boys Club aka Senate says more about the selfishness of the Senator than it does about BO’s qualifications to be president and commander-in-chief, which are thin (he’s black) to non-existent (what has he done?).
We like favorable polls, but they are all over the place and can easily be skewed.
The primaries are not so easily dismissed. That Hillary will perform better in key swing states cannot be dismissed. Obama campaigned hard and spent record-breaking amounts of money in Ohio and PA and still lost by big margins.
On top of that, not fully counting the Michigan and Florida primaries wounds the Democratic Party’s chances in November considerably. I’m heartened by the Florida lawsuit against the DNC and Senator Levin’s stand for seating the Michigan delegation fully at the convention.
If that doesn’t give SD’s pause, and they need to absolve self-perceived past sins against blacks by nominating Obama, then this is a throwaway election to the Republicans.
Here we go. Wheeeee*******
Republicans are now taking the head-to-head polling and obvious unelectability of Obama to heart.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10585.html
They are starting to smell blood.
SurveyUSA is trying to shun Hillary too by refusing to put her in polls. They’re also trying to propup Obama by putting a ridiculous poll out where Obama gets 48%, with a sample of 52% of Democrats.
Think about it.. if Obama cannot win a percentage higher than the percentage of Democrats, how can he even have a HOPE of winning?
The media is realizing that Obama is the weaker candidate and they’re trying to screw Hillary out of what she earned.
Gary,
I used to respect SurveyUSA — until its execs decided to stop acknowledging Hillary. The whole thing is quite disgusting to me — and horrifying.
Do we really know who is doing the work for SurveyUSA? it makes it harder to measure their agendas.
There isn’t one. They get hired to do polls and are asked to measure this or that.
The fact is that nobody paid them to evaluate Hillary at this point.
I’m afraid this will happen more and more. She’s still in the game, but her presence will fade from the traditional stuff.
Given it is so corrupt, is that a bad thing, though?
If those power structures are so flawed, not only in their ability to accurately, and fairly estimate data, is it bad they are marginalized?
A great superpower can’t stand on the shoulders of cheating morons, a guy like K%% isn’t going to take America into the future, let’s be honest, he is not repsected for his intellect, none of them are.
The cheat because they can’t fight, they aren’t smart enough to win.
if Obama is our nominee, I’m going to PA to campaign for McCain.
Is your state not considered competitive enough? or are you seeking to make a difference?
Obama won’t crack 40% aganst McCain. America won’t pick a man who has aligned himself with Islamic terror in a year like 2008.
I agree. The republicans will scare the crap out of the electorate. That’s how these radicals gave us Nixon. Twice. By the time these left wing marxists were done bullying everybody, the people were rushing to the poles to vote against McGovern. You can’t bully somebody at the ballot.
I am not sure they don’t need to do anything else other than tell the truth for once. The truth is scary enough. Don’t even need the “whitey” comment if it exists.
You won’t have to. All of us “bitter” voters will do it for you (or some variation thereof).
yep, I live in North East Pennsylvania - NEPA.
Everybody here has Hillary as first choice, McCain as second choice. PA is RED if “mac vs ob” and BLUE if “Hill vs Mac”, the Philly area suburbs would be Mac’s as well.
Obama’s elites will drop off after the August, September, October devastating hits from the GOP.
Some AA’s will bitterly cling to him.
Lute and Seth, we will have the consolation of everyone being united to defeat obama for good.
Not that the Obama camp or RNC is looking for advice from a Hillary supporter like me, but the RNC will keep their powder dry until after August, then they will blanket the air waves with talk about Obamas tax plan, and his planned middle class tax increases. Obama loses 3-4 points in the national polls on that issue alone. Then after that campaign stops working they will profile people who will likely be in the Obama Whitehouse, and he loses anothe point or two, just a reminder of who Obama is… Finally a week or so before the election they will run some Willie Hortonesque add campaign that will totally set the Obamacrats off on one of these race card tirades, an issue where they think they are strong but in middle america are actually quite weak, that will finish off the swing states.
Karl Rove (or whoever is doing that job nowdays) is rubbing his hands together on how easy this guy will be to beat in a national campaign.
I noticed that Obama lost the upscale PA counties handily. That must have been a shock to him, since he things that all rich, educated upscale people adore him. He lost Bucks county 62-38.
CNN reported he lost the “latte swizlers” in PA too. 54-46. Reason? Women professionals.
Can’t wait to see a commercial on his vibrating cell phone. I bet the republicans suck up to women this time around. Will be fun to watch.
I heard Rendell say on CNN that of all the Republicans that crossed over to vote Democratic in Pennsylvania, 40% of them were Republican WOMEN voting for Hillary.
That’s a stunning number the DNC must think about.
I am registered “unaffiliated”. So no matter what Dean does, Obama is not my candidate.
Independents are smart. Both parties have to suck up to them to get their votes. I suspect there will be a wave of them registering this year. Who knows? They might become a party. Wouldn’t that be something? A party of people neither of the other two represents.
This is the meme throughout the media. Obama’s cue is it’s me and McCain; period. And all the sheep are following. Charlie Rose has had guests for dyas now and it is always Obama, McCain HRC is not even mentioned; at all. Even a commentator on BBC said HRC’s comments were desperate : uh?
This is subversion of a democratic process by the media,the polling agencies and the Obama campaign.
Yet in spite of all this she is the candidate real Democrats prefer. I’ll bet this fact makes the usual suspects tear their hair out in frustration. Anybody know where I can get a copy of the Hair Club for Men membership list? I want to see if Kos&Josh, Keith Obama, and Chris Matthews are members.
Kermit “Kos” Moultisas doesn’t have enough hair to be in the Hair Club for Men.
Clinton has more votes, and yet she is gonna get robbed by the same old gang of male idiots.
How about on his palms?
pfffft. who cares? clinton won’t be on the ballot in november. she’s done like a dinner.
and obama won’t be in the White House come Feburary. The closest he will get is when he attends one of John McCain’s inaugural balls.
They’d let someone like Obama into the White House? they must have lax security standards.
Hi will be invited to the one held in a rented fire hall in East Podunk so no prob with security.
There you go again counting her out yet she still stands tall and a whole lot tougher than you and your wannabe deity-in-chief Obama. She will make to the convention to challenge Obama. The question is, will Obama make it there to challenge her?
Bwana,
Time will tell.
The hour hath tolled twelve. Lovers, to bed. ‘Tis almost fairy time.
time’s up, bubba.
You are repeating yourself again. Can you provide any information or just “its over” all the time? You trolls have been repeating that for a very long time yet Hillary is poised to make it all the way to the convention for a fight.
okay. she goes to the convention. so what? lots of dems are going to the convention.
I said “for a fight.” Please read before you troll. The fight for the nomination.
Very poetically put, but inaccurate. Obama has not been formally named the nominee.
Come back when Obama has the 2210 delegates to win.
He’s not there, yet.
BWANA IS IN GAZA….MAKES NO DIFF WHAT THE SLUT SAYS…nuff said
Because you say so?
No.
Nice try, though, ever think about running a war?
This is the exact method they used to manage the press in 2000, sell the war in 2003, and now against Clinton, their using it to nullify her candidacy, HER WIN of the democratic primary.
And yet, their agenda, so many wars, so little money.
Why?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Hasn’t worked out to well for them, despite their delusions.
And really, what IS the damage count?
Too afraid, and delusional to face the truth.
Oh, no, that’s not a crack in the facade, really.
Shitheads.
Careful what you believe.
To the convention, Hillary, you are fighting for the American people, they are disenfranchising our votes for you, same as with Gore, you WON.
Let’s fight them, this time, and keep fighting them.
More MSM madness.
What they report is what they want.
Check out the Memorandum link.
Lots of right-wing articles.
The right wants to run against Obama, and they spent a lot of money on pundits salaries to puff him up and make that happen! The left and all Democrats, according to the Establishment Playbook will be defined by Obama and his supporters. See how “Crooks and Liars” was featured on that site?
But if Clinton gets the nod, they’ll have to report on her victory and face up to it; they can’t completely control what happens. Just like when CNN and MSNBC had to report reluctantly on her victories and Fox had to start vetting Obama so that he would be sufficiently softened up for McCain.
I feel sad about the bias of the media, but isn’t it amazing how well she’s doing in spite of the onslaught? I’m so proud of her and proud of us for seeing through this latest scam on the American public.
You’re right: it IS amazing that she has done so well — given some of the forces working against her.
Agreed. We must remember that (for example) the great cathedrals were built “against” the powerful forces of gravity, and still stand today.
Hey, pal, whatcha doin?
Bricklayen’
And you, buddy?
I’m building a cathedral.
This is because the masses trust the media even less than they trust politicians. Besides, when something is overdone, it serves as a anger-stimulus, not to mention it piques sympathy. These press jerks are real dumbos preaching to their own choir. It’s like Keith Olberman. You think rural people or people over 40 watch him? You think seniors watch him? Baby boomers? These are HUGE voting blocks. He’s got a choir. Everybody else watches Dobbs–or just the nightly news while they eat supper. That’s the reality of America.
So besides the media dumbos preaching to their own choir, what are the main forces working against Hillary? Anyone?
How much money is invested in the war, and who owns our business community?
And sometimes politics has far less to do with good decisions, and more to do with “weekend in Vegas.”
The US government being Vegas.
Millionaires and billionaires see things a little different, they invest in politicians as a part of power structuring, let’s be real, here.
And I have to laugh, for all the blame the Jews get, it looks more like it’s Arab oil money driving the damn thing.
Remember how badly the press sold Iraq, still is?
They’re doing the same thing with Clinton.
Yes but anti-semiticism has a proven success record…and it is growing world wide….( sigh )
Frankly, they mostly watch local news, not these guys. At least in CA, the local news is dinnertime. I never watch the shows you guys talk about. The only time I’ve ever seen any of them is on UTUBE on-line, and that’s just bits and pieces.
They seem shrill and irrational to me. Sort of like listening to Greta talk about Howard K. Stern/Anna Nicole Smith story. Remember that horrible press smear? Not a single rumor proved true, but the rumor-leeches in the press turned rumors into a destruction machine. That was when Maria Shriver bailed out of media altogether it was so bad.
This business of turning small stuff into bashing on TV is exactly the same and equally repugnant.
Being from PA, I can vouch for the fact that most people are for Hillary!
I campaigned for her and will do so in the general election - or promote McCain if needed.
We only had one Obama person come to our house during the primary.
Their Opening line: “Hi, I’m canvasing on behalf or Barack Obama. Is there anything you would like to know about him? Are there any myths I can dispell?”
I asked them to fill me in on Larry Sinclair. When they pretended to not know what I was talking about I said, “Okay, then fill me in on the dead, gay, choirmaster.” Needless to say the visit wasn’t long.
Obama’s sexual relationship with Jeremiah Wright has also been alluded to, and one can guess that if there is homosexual activity involving high ranking Trinity officials, Obama and Wright might be connected in a lot of ways.
One person who has noted this is the Rev. James David Manning of Atlah Church.
But even if he is a sterling, faithful family man, Obama is not qualified to win the presidency as the Democratic candidate, and he is not qualified to be president and commander in chief.
To be honest, I think comments about Obama’s alleged sexual activities are not necessary.
Agree, there is enough to talk about what with the Rezko style wheeling and dealing, the Ayers movement brainwashing, and the Wright racist anti-american hate speech and the Exelon selling his constituents out and the Killer Spin ping pong gate and all the other gates.
The one thing about him that keeps hitting home here is how “Obama knows his way around a Ballot” and the story of Alice Palmer.
Hillary is not Alice Palmer, Hillary is national. He couldn’t remove her name from ALL the ballots but he sure did manage to get Brazile to do his dirty work for him in Florida and knee cap Hillary there and he sure did manage to remove her name for the most part in all those strong arm caucuses.
Buying the media and the superdelegates off is just the icing on the crap cake the elites ate.
I disagree, Obama has shown himself to be anti gay, and this marks him as a hypocrite.
The platform of those virulent anti semitics is also anti gay, the African dictators, and such, Obama has aligned himself with are Hitlerian in scope, again, LOOK at Odinga.
The issue is relevant.
And what if the future first lady can’t stay away from the down low, or low down, either?
I also agree re: the sexual stuff. Frankly, I have trouble believing that Rev. Wright is homosexual. I mean, he did steal a parishioner’s wife.
I know, it could have all been for show, but…
That and Obama had a very good reason to stay at Wright’s church: the parish numbers in the thousands, which was a good network for Obama when he ran for state offices.
Who the heck advised them to ask that? That’s a dumb question to ask door to door. It creates suspicion. Doh!
The supers are looking at this and they are looking at this, that I posted on TM:
What is the Clinton JJ (June – July) strategy?
TV broadcasting companies and Cable news companies sell advertising. Their instant feedback rating systems tell them immediately what is holding viewers’ attention. When a segment pulls a lot of views they try to replicate it, just like they do with sitcoms. Clinton made her peace with her followup statement on RFK and Jr echoed it. If their (TV) continued running of this does not meet the original numbers today, they will find something else to run, even if they have to pick a fight between McCain and O, like they did this past week when Hillary was relatively quiet.
The Clinton strategy may be based on their keen understanding of how hungry the networks and especially the cable folks are for revenue. This campaign has become addictive to their bean counters. When Clinton goes relatively quiet for longer periods of time in late June and early July the MSM will have to fabricate more hit “shows.” With nothing else to dig up and regurgitate on Clinton they will start looking at the Larry Johnson library at !1/4 (http://noquarterusa.net/blog) and if, after reporting on one of the many issues his site has researched, the ratings improve then they will empty Larry’s catalogue out to the masses.
The GOP is not a monolithic single-headed structure, as some would believe. Tho they want to run against O and it would be in their best interest to hold their fire, some conservative pundits and attention starved elected officials will start to make statements. MSM will request responses from O. When he does not respond they will apply more pressure by digging deeper into Larry’s vault. Clinton, in the while, will be making modest campaign appearances to keep shoring up her support so that when the convention starts the polls will say O is 0 and the delegates will pick the winner still in good standing with the general populace, Hillary Clinton.
That’s my thought, and I approve of this plan.
Larry. Take all your stories and put them in easily downloadable zip files, by subject; Resko, Ayers; Iraq; Michelle. You know what to do. Make it easy for the media. You know you really don’t want them to work that hard on research. They might miss a botox session.
Speaking of botox. I had a reporter for the Tribune in Chicago tell me that he was told to kill a story because the ad guy from one of the campaigns told the paper that if bad stuff came out about his guy he would cut ads to their paper. He said he was told by a producer at WGN that this same campaign guy that unless all camera angles and zooms were approved by him that the station would not be invited to future events.
This sounds like a puffed-up image making tour affair to me. The guy? Ax.
BTW.
Week of March 9th, 2008 ratings for all cable tv shows:
1. College Basketball - Duke vs. NC (ESPN)
2. SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
3. Project Runway (Bravo)
4. WWE Monday Night RAW (USA)
5. WWE Monday Night RAW (USA)
6. SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
7. SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
8. SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
9. SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
10. Election Coverage (CNN)
Anyone watching cable news, and thinking America is, is just nuts. Each of these shows got less than 2M viewers. Idol got 30M. Stuff has to, and will, go mainstream.
Thanks. That’s what I say. I don’t think America watches Keith O or Chris M.
Just the political junkies, and they watch to get mad. LOL* It’s a hobby hating the media.
Another thought is that some big money/clients have put pressure on polling organizations to not include Clinton.
Wouldn’t want to sway SD’s to Clinton.
Indy,
This would not surprise me at all.
It’s like when govt agencies hire consultants to do a benefit cost analysis, and the consultants’ reports (invariably) happen to reflect favorably on whatever project the bureaucrats or elected officials want to undertake.
It’s the “Chicago way.”
And it has NOTHING to do with “new politics above the fray.”
I have thought for a long time that the polls were skewered in Obama`s favour.
SurveyUSA had a poll where Obama was leading 49/42 over McCain in Ohio.
52% of people called in that poll were Democrats.
Basically SurveyUSA cooked the books to make Obama look better, when he has never held a real lead in Ohio, because Ohioans know the real Obama.
He has often underperformed the polls in Primaries.
10 days until Puerto Rico!
Count Michigan and Florida!
Clinton has an insurmountable popular vote lead right now, and she seals it with a 500K vote victory in Puerto Rico.
It isn’t just hardworking whites that can’t trust Obam