Oct. 29: Polling Slows As Storm Wreaks Havoc

[babsbunny]

But Monday did offer some polls in the battleground states.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/oct-29-polling-slows-as-storm-wreaks-havoc/

By NATE SILVER

The effects of Hurricane Sandy on next Tuesday’s election are hard to predict. But the storm is likely to have an impact on the volume of polling in the meantime.

Three of the eight national tracking polls — those from Gallup, Investors’ Business Daily and Public Policy Polling — have announced temporary suspensions in their polling. Further delays and cancellations are likely over the next few days, especially in the Northeastern states.

Still, we were not completely without polls on Monday.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Good!

Maybe this place will stop convulsing like a flibbertigibbet at the slightest whiff of 'bad news.'

[tularetom]

2. Polling slows as trends begin to favor Obama

Gotta keep that mittmentum story alive ya know. We can't have stories about the effectiveness of the Obama administration response to the storm taking people's attention away from the incredible power of the romney surge.

Seriously I think that once the polls begin to show a strong move of "undecided" voters to the Obama column our liberal media will start to lose interest in reporting poll results.

[Jennicut]

3. Honestly, you cannot poll with out samples from the northeast as well.

I mean, you could try but how many people can be reached right now? 500,000 households are without power in Connecticut alone. It is worse in New York and New Jersey. Could you weight the samples? Maybe but it would not be as accurate. I can do without Gallup anyway but I will miss PPP.