Once and for all : Reuters/Ipsos Internet polls are RUBBISH (Sorry EarlG.)

[denem]

It's an online rolling/tracking poll and as easy to hack as a Diebold Voting Machine. Perhaps easier, given the sophistication of internet hacking these days.

Please. It's not worth quoting this trash. With standard security, online polls are dubious to worthless

Of course Reuters is going to headline the results, they're paying for it, and so, not doubt is Mitt's IT network.

IP SOS indeed.

Consider this: After Newt launched his attack on Bain Capital, Reuters found it's voice:

Romney opens 21-point lead in South Carolina: Reuters/Ipsos poll

(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race, trouncing Newt Gingrich and gaining momentum in his march toward the party's nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, could all but quash his rivals' presidential aspirations with a victory in South Carolina on January 21 after winning the first state-by-state nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Voters in South Carolina - who have favored Republicans in nine of the last 10 presidential elections - appear to have shrugged off attacks on Romney by rivals who accuse him of killing jobs as a private equity executive for Bain Capital in the 1990s

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

On Thursday following the first Debate SC debate Reuters said Mitt Romney still leads in the state by a 12-point margin and would beat the former lawmaker handily in a one-on-one race" "Handily"? What did they mean? This:

ROMNEY WINS HEAD-TO-HEAD

Asked if the contest came down to Romney and Gingrich, 54 percent of respondents said they would vote for the former Massachusetts governor, while 33 percent said they would back Gingrich.

Because the poll was conducted online, statistical margins of error do not apply, but this poll has a "credibility interval" - similar to a margin of error - of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for each candidate's result.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSTRE80I2D120120119

'Handily' means 21%,, this time in a fantasy world.

Please. It's worth repeating this: At best, online polls are dubious to worthless. Throw in the GOP's expertise in counting the votes, and Reuters financial interests, and it has all the hallmarks of trash propaganda.

BOYCOTT REUTERS/IP SOS POLLS.

[DCBob]

1. Ok but how about all these?

[denem]

2. I agree Bob. But IPSOS polling is not sound, neither in methodology nor integrity,

whatever results they report, average or outliers. Quote any poll, including Rasmussen, but a Reuters story pushing it's own poll is NOT NEWS.

This is not about Florida. I never mentioned Florida. Reuters/IPSOS will be more important in the GE, when Reuters is peddling their trash big time. Syndication, Internet News algorithms, and the the MSM, will make this muck 'The Story'.

If you have doubts about voting machines, Internet polls are even less reliable. TCP/IP invites the same, if not more, deceit.

[denem]

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