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fivethirtyeight.com - 10/30/2008
Anatomy of a Polling Disaster
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Carl Bialik of the Wall Street Journal has the scoop on the bizarre internals in that IBD/TIPP poll, which as we noted last week , found John McCain as having a substantial lead among young voters. I speculated that this result could only be possible if IBD/TIPP were radically undersampling ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/1/2008
The Anatomy of a Smear
— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Here's how the right's big eleventh-hour smear on Obama was carried out. First the Murdoch-owned Times of... London reported Thursday that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is living in a Boston public-housing complex. It's unclear how the paper learned ... (more) The Anatomy of a Smear

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publicpolicypolling.com - 10/31/2008
Public Policy Polling
— publicpolicypolling.com — Michigan Poll October 31, 2008 Barack Obama is set for a double digit win in Michigan. New... Mexico Poll October 31, 2008 Barack Obama and Tom Udall are both going to win in New Mexico. Final Oregon Poll October 31, 2008 Barack Obama and Jeff Merkley ... (more) Public Policy Polling

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corner.nationalreview.com - 10/29/2008
Internal Polling
— corner.nationalreview.com — The Wall Street Journal today publishes an internal McCain campaign polling memo from yesterday. Bill McInturff, the... campaign's lead pollster, paints a rather different picture than the one we've seen in most media polling, and suggests those media ... (more) Internal Polling

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Daily Kos:  CBS/NY Times: Obama by 11, 52-41 (And A Tracker Update)

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CBS/NY Times: Obama by 11, 52-41 (And A Tracker Update)
Daily Kos — ... As to what's real, we're looking more to the trackers, but there's always the chance that the truth lies somewhere in between, and that the models that drive IBD/TIPP, Zogby and Battleground are driving the tracking averages down a bit. For example, Nate Silver picks up on a ...

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