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2016 Postmortem

Alekei_Firebird

(320 posts) Tue Oct 30, 2012, 03:38 PM Oct 2012

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Gallup says that Romney is headed for landslide victory anyway, so who cares what their EV poll says

Gallup has been showing a +5/6 advantage for Romney for a few weeks now, so of course their EV poll is also going to reflect that. Does anybody actually seriously believe that Romney is headed for such a landslide victory? Is every single OH, VA, NC, FL, and CO poll wrong? Is every single national Ipsos-Reuters, ABC-WaPo, Politico-GWU, PPP, Marist-WSJ, and now even Rasmussen poll wrong too?

Come on now. Gallup is obviously working off of a seriously flawed model and getting all sorts of crazy results as a consequence.

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Gallup says that Romney is headed for landslide victory anyway, so who cares what their EV poll says (Original Post) Alekei_Firebird Oct 2012 OP

Gish Gallup -- i.e. a bunch of nonsense Blue Owl Oct 2012 #1

The Dragon Poll has Obama up by +25 Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #2

Does anyone take Gallup seriously anymore? Hope not. polichick Oct 2012 #3

Gallup will move back by Monday. pointsoflight Oct 2012 #4

What is it with them? LukeFL Oct 2012 #5

Gallup is the most famous name in polling TroyD Oct 2012 #6

Blue Owl

(50,393 posts)

1. Gish Gallup -- i.e. a bunch of nonsense

Reply to Alekei_Firebird (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 03:39 PM

Oct 2012

Clearly, a Romney victory is a stolen victory.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

2. The Dragon Poll has Obama up by +25

Reply to Alekei_Firebird (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 03:45 PM

Oct 2012

With 319 Electoral Votes

polichick

(37,152 posts)

3. Does anyone take Gallup seriously anymore? Hope not.

Reply to Alekei_Firebird (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 03:46 PM

Oct 2012

pointsoflight

(1,372 posts)

4. Gallup will move back by Monday.

Reply to Alekei_Firebird (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 03:47 PM

Oct 2012

They can't afford to be off by so much and will make some "corrections" that put them in line with other polling outfits. Just watch and see.

LukeFL

(594 posts)

5. What is it with them?

Reply to Alekei_Firebird (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:53 PM

Oct 2012

I can't understand it

TroyD

(4,551 posts)

6. Gallup is the most famous name in polling

Reply to Alekei_Firebird (Original post)

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:55 PM

Oct 2012

So that makes them difficult for the media & the general public to ignore.

Hopefully they are wrong about this.

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