Friday, September 28, 2012

Polls: Trust Nobody





Poll Monkeys

After yesterday’s post on poll trustworthiness, I started wondering whether there’s any poll or model that’s been consistently accurate over time and therefore worth watching down the stretch as a weathervane of where the race really stands. I e-mailed two experts whom I trust and put that question to them. Is there any steady signal they trust amid the cacophony of statistical noise? Anyone we can look to as a beacon in the darkness when the NYT drops its next D+10 sample of Utah or whatever on us?

Short answer: No, there’s no one .... [Allahpundit cont]

Related

In 2008, ABC and George Stephanopoulos declared Barack Obama and Joe Biden the winner in four out of four presidential and vice presidential debates. So, it seems likely that ABC might be gearing up for more of a "die" moment and less "do."

ABC's David Muir on Thursday hyped the presidential election as "slipping away" from Mitt Romney and pushed the idea that next week's presidential debate is "do-or-die" for the Republican.




1 comment:

Juice said...

Obama will have all the questions in advance so someone else can create a cheat sheet for him. Romney will (still) out debate him and the press will fawn over Obama and declare him Master of the Universe.

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