Politico: AP race poll looks off...

[dkf]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Questioning_the_race_poll.html?showall

My colleague David Paul Kuhn, a serious poll junkie, has an interesting catch:

The AP study also seems to have been conducted among a population of Democrats more skeptical of Obama than normal. Both polls ABC-News/Washington Post, as well as the massive weekly summaries of the Gallup Poll, demonstrates that since late August between 83 and 85 percent of Democrats say they will vote for Obama. The AP study interviewed a population where only seven in ten Democrats said they support Obama, a notably low number.

[carpe diem]

1. big surprise...

...not. Lying, corrupt, assholes. Not you, the AP.:hi:

[dkf]

3. Didn't McCain want to hire the guy in charge of APs politics section?

[ClarkUSA]

2. Exactly what I said this morning when a dozen Chicken Little OPs came out about this bogus poll

WTH believes in a Ron Fournier AP/Yahoo News poll anyway?

[Phredicles]

12. Wasn't that the outfit that had 77% of African-Americans in Nevada

supporting McCrash? Yeah, that was plausible - was Alan Keyes staying in Vegas, and did they call him 77 times?

[ShortnFiery]

4. Politico.com - Promoted by "The Chimperor" during one of his brainless Press Conferences.

Politico.com = serving ONLY in the interests of the Ruling (Investor) Class of America.

[dkf]

6. Hey, they are smacking back the AP.

Sounds good to me.

[Frank Booth]

14. If that's true, it just shows how bad the AP is.

[elocs]

5. Polls are only as good as their sample size, sampling methods, and for some-ulterior motives. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

7. "Racists" are not the 15% that is in play in every election. They would not have voted for any Dem.

This is a distraction.

[dkf]

8. Yup. I thought a debunking would help though.

[Captain Hilts]

11. It was great to see, actually. These fuckheads are descendants of George Wallace voters. nt

[Blondiegrrl]

9. Ron Fournier wrote the AP article.

I know he has nothing to do with the poll itself, but still, you've got to wonder about how the "facts" are spun.

[dkf]

10. Gosh I guess he is working for McCain after all.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Bingo.