If you MUST post polls on DU, can you PLEASE not just post: XXXX Poll Romney 48 Obama 45
Please.. if you take the time to post, tell is about the poll.
Is it Likely Voters? What was the date??? Did you check to see what their sampling size and breakdown was??
DU is getting overrun with these drive by poll posts this week, many for the same polls and NO info. This is not twitter, folks. Not stream of consciousness. If you post a poll, give the rest of us some data.
It's so frustrating to wade through these polls and have to click on every single link (if there is one) to find out.
A poll can vary widely because of Likely Voter (which is an outdated model and subjective based on the info the pollster considers likely,) on the sampling (some of the polls posted here openly OVER sample republicans and independents,) or they are Popular Vote polls that include states in the South that will NEVER EVER go toward Obama (but skew the percentage.) Oh, and if it's a TV station or newspaper that did the poll, WHO did the poll for them???? Did they use landlines? Did they include cell phones?
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