Hillary up by 30% among young voters..

[SaveElmer]

Sacred Heart University Poll...

Hillary 54%
Obama 24%

Democrat ahead 56% to 39% in the general!!!

http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/3917_poll_results.cfm

[obnoxiousdrunk]

1. But you know young voters

are DLC=Corporate=Faux=Murdoch=........(fill in the blank.

[onehandle]

2. They don't vote.

If they voted as they preach, Bush would have never come close to the White House even with Rove and Nader working for him.

They didn't make a difference in 2004.

[Lerkfish]

3. from the report on methodology:

The Sacred Heart University Polling Institute completed 400 interviews, in a quantitative research design, with residents nationwide.

All telephone interviews were conducted between October 5-15, 2007. Sample was generated proportional to population contribution in each state. One survey instrument was used to elicit information from all respondents.

All respondents were residents of the contiguous states along with Alaska and Hawaii. Each respondent was between the ages of eighteen and thirty.

Training of telephone researchers and a pre-test of the survey instrument occurred on October 5, 2007.

All facets of the Sacred Heart University Poll were completed by Institute researchers and senior staff. These aspects included survey design, sample design, pre-test, computer programming, fielding, coding, data entry, validation and logic checks, computer analysis, analysis, report writing and presentations.

Statistically, a sample of 400 completed telephone interviews represents a margin for error of +/-5.0% at a 95% confidence level.

[wyldwolf]

4. Even at +/- 5%, Hillary's numbers are still overwhelming

[Lerkfish]

5. 400 people is not "overwhelming"

it might or might not be statistically accurate, but the sampling is low, and extrapolation is high.

as with all polls, one should take the results with a grain of salt., even if they conducted interviews in every state, that's less than 10 people per state.

[wyldwolf]

8. but beating the +/- MOE by such a large number is.

[Lerkfish]

9. if you only poll 9 people per state, and there are 15 universities in that state

you are not even polling one person per university. Imagine picking ONE person to represent all of Cal State Berkely.

look, its the nature of polling, you extrapolate from a small sample to a larger sample. But usually, the samples are larger than that for a national poll. 400 is not even a big sample for a local race. I'm saying this is a dramatically small sample to base a poll on.

But all polls are extrapolations, the +/- figures are also estimates. All polls should be taken with a grain of salt, whether they support your POV or not.

[Bumblebee]

6. well, among the young people I know, Obama lost quite a bunch

of them after the McClurkin fiasco, and Hillary was their second choice primarily because at least it's exciting to have a woman president. Does not surprise me.

[Bitwit1234]

7. Hot Damn...didn't Obama shoot himselves in the cojones last night.

keep it up shit spreader, the more you flame the more she climbs.