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Showing Original Post only (View all)Nate Silver: Forget Quinnipiac. Obama is behind on Rasmussen [View all]
The swing in Colorado has been dramatic,, according to Quinnipiac.
But the pollster exposed by Nate Silver as the worst in 2010, with a pro-Republican bias, says Obama is behind by 2%.
Since Nate Silver's article was meant to be pro-Romney (in order to keep Republicans from stop reading his column), Silver does not mention the dramatic rise in Colorado's Q poll. This is called cherrypicking.
Obama's bump has remained steady in Ipsos and has even increased in Rand lately, but he chooses to mention Gallup and Rasmussen in his headline.
Not a good journalist.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/sept-18-obamas-bounce-erodes-in-two-tracking-polls/
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What do you mean by "dropped the now-cast"? It's still there, and gives President Obama a
Grown2Hate
Sep 2012
#33
He's wishy washy because the polls are dynamic. They only give us a snapshot in time.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Sep 2012
#13
It's pretty sad when people like you and me can see that without OH and VA, Romney has no shot.
Dawgs
Sep 2012
#10