Comments on: Note to the Obama Loving Media – It’s Not Over Yet

By: Paul_In_Houston

Paul_In_Houston — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:48:23 +0000

I saw a comment recently, that Zogby was contractually obligated to poll more Democrats than Republicans. I don’t remember who’s blog, or what it was a response to (so consider the veracity of this as HIGHLY suspect).

Does anyone here know if there is ANYTHING at all to that?
Or, if it is just pure BS.

I simply don’t know.

By: MD_Vet

MD_Vet — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:40:29 +0000

I stopped going to RCP a few weeks ago when it became obvious that their “results” were weighted toward bHo…

By: Mack

Mack — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:27:25 +0000

Retire 05,
Since Time Inc bought RCP, it has ceased to be independent of thought. Just another liberal rag.

By: Redteam

Redteam — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:01:55 +0000

Retire05, I thought it was pretty obvious that RCP is in the tank for the Socialist. As you pointed out, they claim not to do any polling(just average the polls) which would be okay, except that they only average the ‘expanded’ polls (which project too many Dems) and exclude any that are ‘too close’ such as the ones you mentioned. If you took ‘every’ poll of likely voters and ‘averaged’ them, you would be much closer than RCP.

as the Dems would say, vote early, vote often.

By: shield

shield — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:46:44 +0000

Mac, I agree with you. McCain/Palin will win. Let’s just Praise The Lord for this.

By: retire05

retire05 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:31:06 +0000

Mac, did you ever notice that RealClearPolitics never uses the results from either Zogby or the IBD poll? But no surprise. I have thought for a while they were in the tank for Obama. Here’s why:

during the primaries I was keeping a track of the popular votes. I would write down the results as the primary votes were counted. I had written down the votes from the totals and Hillary was leading. The next day, another primary had been counted, and using RCP’s previous day’s count and the results of the latest primary, HRC should have had a good lead. But according to RCP, Obama was leading in the popular vote count.

I emailed them, providing the previous day’s count, adding the count from the latest state primary and explaining that surely they had just made a mistake in the current count.

I got a return email and it damn sure wasn’t what I expected. It was hateful and insulting and I was told that perhaps I should invest in a better calculator. The last line went something like this: OUR NUMBERS ARE CORRECT AND YOU ARE STUPID.

Well, so much for relying on RCP for any balance. Then I started noticing that the articles that they reprint are pretty heavily loaded toward Obama. Maybe a 3-2 ratio.

I am so disgusted with the behavior of not only the journalists, but the polls who are weighting their polls to favor Obama. The American people are being bamboozled into thinking that Obama has more support than he really does. Now I think the goal of some of the polls is to discourage those who would vote for McCain by making them think this election is all but over.

If Obama wins, we can finally say that we have a President elected by the press.