Poll giving Romney 21-point lead was conducted online

[RandySF]

It's a piece of crap:

The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online from January 10-13 with a sample of 995 South Carolina registered voters. It included 398 Republicans and 380 Democrats.

Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online surveys but this poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 5 percentage points for Republicans and 3.4 percentage points for all voters.



http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/14/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSTRE80D0U420120114

[still_one]

1. The way the media is reporting it tells you who the corporations want. It has been some time now,

but it should be more than obvious that one should NEVER take what is reported from the MSM as fact, without verification

[Lawlbringer]

2. I'm shocked and appalled...

An online poll that wasn't flooded and abused by Ron Paul supporters?! Somebody's not getting invited to the gathering to listen to Alex Jones for a few days.

[jwirr]

3. Tomorrow is Sunday - all the preachers will do a sermon on him and then watch out!

[aaaaaa5a]

4. I'm further confused.

Online polls are bad enough. But the South Carolina primary is a Republican primary. To my knowledge it is a closed primary. Only registered Republicans can vote. So why is the online sample for a GOP primary including a majority of Democrats?