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fivethirtyeight.com - 10/17/2008
Bad Spin Watch: Drudge Touts Weeks-Old, Web-Based Poll
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For his latest trick, Matt Drudge is touting the results of an AP-Yahoo poll that shows a two-point race between Obama and McCain. You may never have heard of the AP-Yahoo poll before. This is for good reason, since a look at the fine print reveals that it's not really intended for its horse ...
eschatonblog.com - 10/21/2008
Matt Drudge Still Rules Their World
— eschatonblog.com — While Boehlert is right that Matt Drudge hasn't been as influential over this election as he has... at other times, I don't think it's correct to discount completely his mind control powers over our nation's editors and TV news producers. Those powers ... (more) Matt Drudge Still Rules Their World

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Oliver Willis:  The Whiff Of Desperation

INSTAPUTZ:  Hugh Hewitt, Still Dead An Idiot.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  The New Web Star vs The Old?

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The Whiff Of Desperation
Oliver Willis — Matt Drudge tries to haul McCain over the finish line using bogus polls.

Hugh Hewitt, Still Dead An Idiot.
INSTAPUTZ — ... Trouble is, kiddies, the AP/Yahoo poll, as Mr. Silver notes, "is not timely. It entered the field on October 3 -- two weeks ago -- and left the field on October 13, which was this Monday." The RCP averages are ...

The New Web Star vs The Old?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Nate Silver fisks Drudge once more.

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AP In the Tank For Obama — A Blog For All
The AP conducted a poll with Yahoo! courtesy of Knowledge Networks. The polling internals are here. What the AP wrote about the poll and what the poll says are two different things. They're not even in the same ballpark. It's not even the same sport.When it comes to the public's image of John ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Narrowing Gap: Obama's "Sharing Your Wealth" Tax Plan Triggers Move To McCain — Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
AP/Yahoo shows the race at 2%; the Battleground at 4% --a huge swing in that poll in a week.What matters most is the direction of the numbers in each poll, not the size of the gap, and the Joe the Plumber debate has...
Hugh Hewitt: The Narrowing Gap: Obama's "Sharing Your Wealth" Tax Plan Triggers Move To McCain — Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
AP/Yahoo shows the race at 2%; the Battleground at 4% --a huge swing in that poll in a week.What matters most is the direction of the numbers in each poll, not the size of the gap, and the Joe the Plumber debate has...