DU Action Alert! New Newsweek poll: Only 27% are Dems...

[Kahuna]

What am I missing? The latest poll has bush at 52% JA. of the 1004 respondents interviewed, only 27% are Dems and Dem leaning. That means that 73% of the respondents are Pubs?????????

How can we get a realistic job approval number if 73% of the respondents are rethugs? And if 73% of the respondents are rethugs and bush only gets 52% JA, what is his real job approval number?

I think we should contact Newsweek and severly admonish them for perpetrating this fraud on the public at: [email protected]

snip..

http://www.msnbc.com/news/972700.asp

The NEWSWEEK poll was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates, which interviewed 1,004 adults by telephone on Sept. 25 and 26. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. For those questions which surveyed registered voters, 821 people were interviewed, and the margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points. For those questions which surveyed Democrats and Democratic leaners, 273 people were interviewed and the margin of error is plus or minus 7 percentage points

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Interesting how Clark is always on top and the other names

move around.

:tinfoilhat: lol

[janekat]

10. Wow! Clark is doing really well....

Regardless of which Democratic candidate you might personally support, which do you think is most likely to unseat George W. Bush if nominated?

MSNBC Newsweek
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark 57% 28%
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman 5% 20%
Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt 1% 15%
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean 15% 12%
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry 4% 9%
All the same 5% 1%
None of them can beat Bush 8% 4%
Don't know 6% 11%

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. I'd doubt that seventy-three percent identify as Repubicans.

It's a mistake to assume one must be one or the other. A sizable percentage probably don't self-identify as Democratic OR Republican. Those would be the "swing voters", and likely also people from the 50-60% of the population that doesn't bother to vote at all. And a much smaller number would self-identify as Green, Libertarian, anarchist, etc.

[xray s]

3. Looks like a garbage poll to me

Any poll with a 7% +/- is worthless.

[Kahuna]

4. The Dem portion is meaningless with tht MOE. Agreed.

nt

[Capn Sunshine]

5. Besides

Newsweek is a notorious republican rag

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. But Clark leads in the Newsweek poll....

[janekat]

13. Hmmmm - don't know about that. It's much less so than Time and

U.S. News. It has Eleanor Clift.

[Yupster]

7. The trend since Watergate at least

has been for a lesser percentage of people to identify with either party. The largest group today are not a member of either party.

[Room101]

8. I'm a Indy

;)

[janekat]

12. Have you ever voted Repub? or do you mean you're a Green or

vote for the "Independent" Party? It can mean a few different things....

[mb7588a]

9. naw.. that's accurate

The gallup poll was 49% earlier last week.

A statistics class would benefit you and Newsweek. +/- 7 error is not worth the time of day and shows an extreme lack of competance at the Newsweek folks.

I don't know that I'd say they are notoriously conservative. That could be said for Time, i'm not convinced that is the case with Newsweek. They have always seemed rather independent to me.


http://www.mbare.org

[Kahuna]

11. You're all right. I over-reacted. I forgot about the..

indies who would normally account for around 40% of the vote.