Community | October 25, 2011 | 5 comments

At this stage of the contest, polls mean nothing. Ask President Giuliani.

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BalmerLiberal
Another day, another poll.

Another poll, another waste of time and money.

At this state of the campaign, polls mean nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

But, my… ain’t they entertaining?


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5 comments // At this stage of the contest, polls mean nothing. Ask President Giuliani.

  • DanCastro
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      DanCastro  

    • But aren't you looking at snapshots when what you want is the movie's end? The polls tell you how people feel about stuff today. How do we know that most people support the aims of OWS or support taxing the rich? Sure it's too early for them to tell US who will win the Presidential race, but that is also a product of what happens between now and election day. The repugs are betting a bad economy will sink the Prez regardless of whether they "caused" it by refusing to support job creation. The Prez is counting on the polls that tell him he and the people agree, tax the rich and expose the complicity between the right and the rich! (no I'm not a prof pollster! ;-)

    • 7 months ago
  • BalmerLiberal
  • DanCastro
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      DanCastro  
    • BalmerLiberal:

      In the sense of their 'long' term predictive quality, I fully understand, but as a means of trying to figure out what people think about an issue, I think it has merit. Now obviously the professionalism of the poll taker and therefore the way the questions are worded and scored, makes major impact and can skew the results.

    • 7 months ago
  • BalmerLiberal
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      BalmerLiberal  
    • DanCastro:

      And again, I say that every politician has access to private polling. If they want to know what people think on any issue, they do not wait for Gallup or CBS/NYT to tell them which way the wind is blowing. The stuff we hear each and every day is just fodder for the infotainment on cable news.

    • 7 months ago
  • DanCastro
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      DanCastro  
    • BalmerLiberal:

      I hear what you are saying and I still like to see the polls to give me a clue as to what the public feels about topics and how those feeling change as new issues are added. Shall we agree to disagree?

    • 7 months ago
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