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What the...? Do my eyes deceive me? Fox News poll

Posted: Aug 19, 2012

I almost can't believe this, so please chime in if I'm misreading this....page 3 of this link to Fox News presidential polling. Wha....??

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O.K., among "All Registered Voters," up by 9. - "Extremely Interested" voters looks like

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Maybe this explains why Republicans are so bent on making sure a segment of registered voters don't get to vote by either not being able to present photo I.D. or not being able to get to the polls.

Yes, mail-in voting is an option; but many people, including myself, WANT to be able to vote in person....pull that lever, push that tab, click on that choice--whatever. I do not trust mail-in voting; and besides, I love to vote in person. It makes me feel very AMERICAN to exercise this right.

cut off "Extremely Interested" voters looks - like a tie.

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I can help out here...{sm} - Liberty

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This poll was done on August 5-7, I believe. I heard the Fox correspondent explaining this poll when this aired, and the correspondent said they polled 9% more Democrats than Republicans in this poll. Don't ask me why they did that...I do not work for Fox. Other polls for that week did the same thing with polling more Democrats than Republicans.

Thank you.

Ahhh, that does explain it some. - SM

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I had first found the Fox News poll among an aggregate polling site on Real Clear Politics, which posts several polls from various places. I went to the Fox News site because I thought the 9-point lead for Obama in the Fox News poll numbers might've been a misprint.

I'll be interested in seeing future Fox News polling now, with Ryan in the VP spot.

Thanks!

Maybe they're running out of Republicans? ;-) - bootstraps

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I know nothing about polling, but I thought it was just an across-the-board thing.

Does Fox know who is what when they poll?

Do they know it before they poll? i.e., can they choose to poll only one party?

So if "no" is the answer to both, it's not Fox's fault if they accidentally polled some Dems, right?

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - nm

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The only thing it proves is Fox tells the truth, unlike - the other left biased channels

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Thanks! I think you might be right, - and....

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....the truth is that Obama is polling over Romney! O.K., I buy that!

Don't be too sure... - xxx

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Public Policy Polling had Scott Walker up by +3 (margin of error was +/- 2.8%) the week of the Wisconsin recall. Walker won by 7%.

While pollsters try to be scientific, there are still variables they can't control, like who decides to respond and who doesn't. I have gotten multiple calls from political polling agencies this year and have only answered a couple of them.

Remember, Reagan was 8 points behind in polls - Jess

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before he was elected. ;)

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