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Marzupialis

(398 posts)
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 01:20 AM Aug 2012

Doug Schoen (worst pollster in the world) criticizes Pew Poll

"Democratic pollster" Doug Schoen, (who is actually a Fox News contributor who has said Obama has "should not seek relection in 2012" because he "has divided the country along partisan lines", and said that the Affordable Care Act had been a "disaster" for the Democratic Party) is the source to this Fox News article headlined "Pew poll puts Obama ahead by 10 points amid questions about its methodology".

Schoen's Penn and Schoen poll is notorious for having conducted one of the worst polls in the history of polls-- an exit poll showing Hugo Chavez losing a referendum by 20%, when in fact he won by 20% (That is equivalent to a margin of error of 40%). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn,_Schoen_%26_Berland

So this is the only source "amid" which Pew methodology is being criticized, according to Fox. This is the "Democratic" pollster that Fox talks about, who is nothing but a man dedicated to fight Democratic and left-wing causes throughout the planet.

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Doug Schoen (worst pollster in the world) criticizes Pew Poll (Original Post) Marzupialis Aug 2012 OP
How odd DFW Aug 2012 #1
I would rather look at state by state polls. Kalidurga Aug 2012 #2
Schoen is the same shitheel who told Obama he should resign and let Hillary run in his place in 2012 Arkana Aug 2012 #3

DFW

(54,358 posts)
1. How odd
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 01:42 AM
Aug 2012

A source very close to the Obama campaign told me that Pew was one of the two most reliable pollsters in the country.

Hmmmm, I wonder. Who is more believable here, someone from Fox or someone from the Obama campaign?

Give me a tenth of a second here to ponder that question...................

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
2. I would rather look at state by state polls.
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 02:46 AM
Aug 2012

The EV count looks a lot better than most national polls anyway.

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
3. Schoen is the same shitheel who told Obama he should resign and let Hillary run in his place in 2012
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 11:57 PM
Aug 2012

He and Pat Caddell are worse than useless.

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