CNN/Time polls only whites over 50

[medeak]

http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/politics/2010/10/27/commentary-cnntime-magazine-poll-only-whites-over-50/

[Dawson Leery]

1. Millions of people under 50 vote! CNN is pushing pure propaganda!

AA's and Hispanics vote! Asians vote!

CNN is S**T! :mad:

[medeak]

3. only grumpy old people vote lol n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Polls are off this year for technical reasons

And that is one of them.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Seriously how do they check this..

Do they ask for photo I-D? Yeah, pfffffft, right..

[Kalyke]

5. Note the term: "Likely Voter Survey" printed across the top.

I guess to CNN, the only likely voters are white people over 50.

[sufrommich]

6. Nowhere in the link they provide does it say anything

about the age or racial makeup of the people they polled. What is this shit?

[arcane1]

7. Page 23:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/10/27/topstate8.pdf

[sufrommich]

12. Every state they polled has an N/A category. I don't think it

means that these people weren't included in the polls.

[sharp_stick]

15. But the numbers under the white

category add up to 100% don't they? To me that implies that they only counted the responses from those groups and any other groups are listed as not applicable or not counted.

[sharp_stick]

8. I see the N/A under other

for race, meaning that it looks like they only polled Whites but it looks like they polled all ages.

Why they would N/A other than white is kind of baffling.

[sharp_stick]

9. It looks like they polled all age groups

but why in the hell would they only poll whites?

I'm baffled as to the reasoning and wondering why nobody picked up on this?

[arcane1]

11. All age groups?

Page 23 has "N/A" for both 18-34 and 35-49

[sharp_stick]

13. But everyone knows that they don't vote

I missed that all together.

I'd really like to know what the hell is going on with this poll.

[Quantess]

10. That's just his opinion. Nothing to back it up.

[jkshaw]

14. Except at the link.

[liskddksil]

16. Just means that the sample size for those subgroups was too small

to make valid claims from.

[fifthoffive]

23. True, but

If 23% of the NV population is "non-white" (I believe that is the terminology used), shouldn't the poll have had a large enough sample size to report results for that group? Seems to me to be a problem in the sampling design.

[TheKentuckian]

17. Good ole Conservative News Network!

[medeak]

18. reminds me of Obama polling off due to people with no land lines

know so many people who have cell phones only

[medeak]

19. politicalwire.com on polls re cell phones

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/28/democrats_catch_republicans_in_generic_ballot.html

[mzmolly]

20. OMG. How many Reid voters are discouraged into staying home, because of these misleading

polls?

[kwolf68]

21. Will blacks vote? Will the young vote?

Don't blacks have a low representation at the polls typically?

[mzmolly]

22. You're not seriously suggesting that this poll

is accurate, are you?

[Kind of Blue]

25. I see it this way - Angle's camp would not

be so gun-ho about suppressing minority voters in Nevada, if we didn't vote.

There are too many articles written about why Nevada turned blue in '08. Unions and Black leaders have been rallying around Reid, registering Hispanics and African-Americans since January.

Read these and then reconsider your question.
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/black-leaders-in-nevada-rally-around-reid-campaign.php

http://www.frey-demographer.org/reports/R-2009-2_HowRaceAffect2008Election.pdf

"Typical" has taken a turn for the worst for the GOP.

[ThePhilosopher04]

24. There's a category for under 50...

which Reid leads 50-43...apparently they lumped all folks under 50 together...as far as race, I think they probably did poll minorities based on the numbers, but failed to break them down by percentage of vote...essentially they're saying only white people over 50 count.