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July 7th at 2:17PM

Zogby Poll Shows Barack Obama With Huge Electoral College Leads

POSTED BY: CubbyChaser

According to John Zogby's online poll -- which, according to John Zogby, is "remarkably accurate" -- Barack Obama's Electoral College lead over John McCain is practically embarrassing (whether for McCain or Zogby remains to be seen)...

Obama: 273
McCain: 160
Undecided: 105

What that means is that, according to these numbers, even if all the undecided states tipped toward McCain, Obama would still lead 273 to 265.

With Obama only beating McCain by a few points in national polls, it seems odd to see him holding such landslide numbers when it comes to the Electoral College. I wonder what could be the factor I'm not considering...

Bob Barr receives the support of 7% of voters who identify themselves as conservative or very conservative voters. Barr gets 43% of libertarians and 11% of independents.

Okay, but what about that potato sack who's running on the liberal side?

On the left, Ralph Nader gets less than 2% nationally.

Almost two percent?! I am genuinely surprised that Nader is polling that high.

On second thought, when I think about Nader supporters and then I think about all the people I see drooling into their laps on the subway, I guess I'm actually a little surprised he's not polling at an even two percent.

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I'm going to cut to the chase by saying that Barack Obama should choose Bob Barr as his running mate because both the Democratic and Republican party's don't know anything about liberty and freedoms I think that with this Obama/Barr 08 ticket they can finally restore our country's liberty and freedoms if anybody out there is confused of my idea here is an example: Washington D.C. made a ban on handguns 30 years ago and 30 years later they overturned the gun ban I'd would like to say to every single gun owner out there If you want to keep your guns vote for an Obama/Barr ticket. P.S. YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN.

by Rayshawn Ordway July 7th at 6:17PM
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April 17th at 2:47PM

John Zogby's Poll Sucking

POSTED BY: CubbyChaser

According to pollster John Zogby, Barack Obama has closed the gap in Pennsylvania and now trails Hillary Clinton by a single point...

The survey, which was conducted April 15-16, 2008 and came out of the field midway through Wednesday's contentious debate between the two candidates in Philadelphia, shows Clinton at 45% and Obama at 44%, with 12% either wanting someone else or left undecided.

This would be fantastic news for the Obama campaign, except for one little thing: Zogby's polls are always wrong.

At zero hour in 2004, he predicted a John Kerry victory. He had Obama winning California and Ohio. And I'm pretty sure he even predicted that Jim Carrey would win an Academy Award for The Number 23.

Matt Yglesias considers why he's so continually garbagey...

This illustrates a real problem with the public polling game, namely the lack of incentives to get things right. Presumably there's some level of consistent wrongness at which people stop giving you the links, readership, buzz, and whatever else it is you're looking for but it's really not clear where that is. And, indeed, for your average media poll where the objective is to produce an "interesting" article accompanying the poll, you're probably better off being wrong.

Suppose I somehow screwed up my polling and got the result that 50 percent of African-Americans say they'll vote for John McCain in November if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination. Does that sound plausible? No. Would it be a big story if I had a poll that said it was true? Yes. And if I'm in the business of producing big stories, then that means I run with the poll and come away very happy with a day's job well done.

That makes sense.

By the way, according to a poll I just conducted, not only will Barack Obama win Pennsylvania with a full 100% of the vote on Tuesday, but he'll also be made an honorary astronaut by NASA.

Now give me links.

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Ya'll are weird and I only have two words to say to you. GO McCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (If you wanna hear my arguements then go ahead and critize him but trust me you don't want to get me started.)

by I ROCK!!! October 28th at 7:12AM
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