2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPPP/Daily Kos/SEIU poll (Oct. 18-21): Obama 48%, Romney 48%
From Romey +4 to a tie.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/23/1148660/-Daily-Kos-SEIU-State-of-the-Nation-poll-Obama-erases-Romney-lead?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)But the trend line is good for that poll.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts).
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)But at the end of the day PPP is a Democratic Lite version of Rasmussen, a robocaller who because of the low expense of robocalling can churn out scores of polls.
imgbitepolitic
(179 posts)Why are pollsters trying to reach consensus? Its not a tie. Nate silver wsrned of this.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Often in sports a superior team plays down to competition and sometimes the refineries help the game go there. Sometimes weathermen also try forecast things that never happen or some type of repairman giving you a worst case scenario that mostly never happens. It's all about projections and making them feel important in their jobs or business'. Give them the rope they want, if they are up to no good you will eventually find them tied up in knots while still issuing their denials