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CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 09:11 PM Nov 2012

Why does PA poll with Obama 3 point lead over represent white voters and men?

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/blog_pennsylvania_ave/mc--morning-call-2012-pennsylvania-presidential-election-survey-20121104,0,3980627.htmlpage

Morning Call Poll / 2008 Exit Poll / 2004 Exit Poll

Men-------------->48% / 46% / 47%
Women---------->52% / 54% / 53%

White-------------->86% / 81% / 82%
Black-------------->09% / 13% / 13%
Hispanic---------->02% / 04% / 3%

http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/blog_pennsylvania_ave/mc-muhlenerg-poll-obama-ahead-3-20121104,0,3073650.story

Heading into the closing two days of the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama clings to a slim three-point lead over Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, according to the final Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll of the state's likely voters.

Polls showing the race closing in Pennsylvania in the final haul have changed the narrative around the state's importance ahead of Election Day. Where once polls showed Obama secure, with leads of anywhere from 7 to 10 points, now he's ahead just 49 percent to 46 percent in a Democratic-leaning state.
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Why does PA poll with Obama 3 point lead over represent white voters and men? (Original Post) CreekDog Nov 2012 OP
Dunno... Iggy Nov 2012 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author CreekDog Nov 2012 #2
Probably because folks stupidly fell asleep in 2010 BumRushDaShow Nov 2012 #3

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BumRushDaShow

(128,846 posts)
3. Probably because folks stupidly fell asleep in 2010
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 10:01 PM
Nov 2012

and some teabaggers got in, and they think that was that from now until the end of time. It's all a bunch of bullshit. They always wanted to keep PA as a "swing state" and they were burnt in the 5 past Presidential elections. So when they started that crap up again this year, they were soundly rebuked. So this starting it back up yet again and trying to justify it with skewed polling will hopefully be their last hurrah.

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