Comments on: Dueling Polls http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/05/09/15/dueling-polls/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:51:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: snuzy mandrake http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/05/09/15/dueling-polls/#comment-142479 snuzy mandrake Mon, 05 May 2008 16:35:00 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24734#comment-142479 actually, i don't think the polls are really that inconsistent with each other. the biggest different seems to be the spin each article is placing on their respective data. for example, the u.s.a. today poll (the one that supposedly shows that obama's standing has "been significantly damaged" by the wright kerfuffle, showed <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-04-polltable_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip" rel="nofollow">no significant change</a> in obama's favorability/unfavorability rating in the past month (it went from 60%/34% to 58%/37% with a MOE of +/-3%) the wright-specific questions in each poll are very different from one another (u.s.a. today asks more questions whereas the NYT/CBS polls just has respondents state whether they think the controversy will affect anyone's votes in the fall) actually, i don’t think the polls are really that inconsistent with each other. the biggest different seems to be the spin each article is placing on their respective data. for example, the u.s.a. today poll (the one that supposedly shows that obama’s standing has “been significantly damaged” by the wright kerfuffle, showed no significant change in obama’s favorability/unfavorability rating in the past month (it went from 60%/34% to 58%/37% with a MOE of +/-3%)

the wright-specific questions in each poll are very different from one another (u.s.a. today asks more questions whereas the NYT/CBS polls just has respondents state whether they think the controversy will affect anyone’s votes in the fall)

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