Do the Polls Matter?
September 25, 2012 at 5:01 pm in News by Dustin Siggins 3 Comments
Over the weekend, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told the media that national polls don’t matter. According to Messina, the campaign is doing well in the important battleground states, and so national polls are less relevant than many would otherwise believe.
While this is not a bad point, of course it is simply partisan campaign spin to say national polls mean nothing. The significance of polls was shown last week, when National Review Online reporter Katrina Trinko wrote about how many national polls are biased…and that bias could mean the difference between Obama or Romney winning in November. According to Trinko, the major reasons for the sometimes obvious bias in polling could be due to several factors:
- Party identification shifts that will take place between now and November 6 may not be accounted for, simply because the pollsters don’t know how many people will switch.
- Question bias could be major factor – as Trinko writes, if a series of questions has hammered Republicans and made them look bad, a last question asking for party identification may be given inaccurately.
- Many Democrats are Republicans by voting style – for example, in Oklahoma, party ID is vastly in favor of Democrats, but it’s one of the most Republican states in the nation.
- Asking those taking the survey if they are a Republican or a Democrat instead of Republican, Democrat, or independents could lead to skewed results.
Trinko’s piece is important because grassroots activists need to not become discouraged when seeing biased polling. The one poll that matters is the one that takes place on November 6, and until that day is over no one can say for certain whether supporters of free markets and smaller government will win the day.
I believe that not only is the poll bias intended to discourage grassroots voters, but to provide cover for a blatant attempt to steal the election. When a number of “found” votes are discovered, the story will be “the polls before the election said it would be close”. We need to get everyone to the polls November 6, and WATCH THEM.
We will see the true American Voter’s on November 6, 2012…!!!
American’s have had more than enough of Obama, the media is simply trying to dis-encourage the American Voter’s because their livelihood depends on Obama being re-elected.
I personally believe they should all be trailled for Capital Treason;
1. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.
Starting with Obama First…!!!
The liberal media is overweighting polls by dems+7 to dems+13 in some cases. There are two schools of thought here. One, there are trying to discourage people from voting by trying to make them believe that Obama has this thing in the bag. Two, a more nefarious issue, they are going to try vote fraud on an unprecendented scale. Obama will not go quietly into the night. He has already hired legions of attorneys. For those of you in swing states please get out and register people to vote. Unless, we use the same tactics that dems do we may lose. They bus people to the polls, they go to resthomes with absentee ballots to register people to vote. Now is the time to come to the aid of your country.