Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: Mitt Romney pulls ahead of Barack Obama 47 to 44 % in Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)6. NOT their tracking poll I suspect.
It's about time for their separate once monthly poll to come out. Last month that skewed more towards Romney than their tracking did. Not sure what differences in methodology there are or why they need two polls exactly...
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
65 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Mitt Romney pulls ahead of Barack Obama 47 to 44 % in Reuters/IPSOS tracking poll [View all]
villager
Oct 2012
OP
A Chicago Tribune piece on a different (parallel?) Reuters/Ipsos poll, evidently:
villager
Oct 2012
#2
Shoot, you're right -- I mixed up news about the two polls myself in a news feed
villager
Oct 2012
#9
What possible evidence could there be in thinking Americans could ever be that stupid!?
villager
Oct 2012
#12
Bullshit.They are prepping the field to steal another election.Gone so far as to say "no exit polls"
judesedit
Oct 2012
#27
All this "poll hysteria" with wildly fluctuating numbers that don't make sense...
AlbertCat
Oct 2012
#28
Exactly! Rasmussen gives Obama only a 1 point lead in Ohio, where others give him 6.
SunSeeker
Oct 2012
#34
Problem usually is this. They oversample "independents" who are almost always repugs.
progressivebydesign
Oct 2012
#35
My dear Democrats, and other President Obama supporters, STOP looking at polls,
ywcachieve
Oct 2012
#44
That's a national poll, where Romney is picking up more support in red states
vinny9698
Oct 2012
#63