by Datechguy | July 24th, 2012
Today Politico, MSNBC, the Washington Post and the Moderate Voice all breathlessly report that while the negative campaign has brought down the popularity of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the president leads Mitt by 6 points in the latest NBC/WSJ poll.
I was at the Weaver/Golnik debate so I missed the release of the poll but Allahpundit was home and noticed something important.
The 2008 national exit poll sample, taken when Hopenchange fever was at its zenith, was 39D/32R/29I, or D+7. This one, after three years of Obamanomics dreck, is somehow D+11 if you include leaners and D+12(!) if you don’t. Anyone feel like taking these results seriously?
Bottom line in a poll 46% Democrat and 35% Republican, yet with an 11 point advantage the president only manages a 6 point lead.
It gets more interesting if you look at the internals.
One of the topics asked about was Obamacare, according to the internals 40% of the respondents favored it while 44% opposed it.
So in the poll the number of people who supported Obamacare was 13% below the total number of Democrats in the poll, while the number of people who opposed Obamacare was over 25% greater than the number of Republicans polled.
The obvious question is this. Considering that we are in an internet age and the internals of this poll are available why on earth would NBC/WSJ even bother to release a poll so skewed that it can be debunked in about 19 seconds?
The answer lies in the links I lead with. Each of the sites primary audience consists of leftists and none of them mention the D11 split.
This poll has nothing to do with reporting the state of the race, it has everything to do with convincing the left that president Obama is not in the trouble he is in.
For us on the right willing to actually read the internals of this poll and know what it means it says one thing:
“Ride right through them, they’re demoralized as hell”!
If they are playing these games in July you can’t imagine what will happen in October.
Update: Instalanche Thanks Glenn
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Let the Democrats keep reading polls like this right up til Election Day. The more they believe their own propaganda, the less effort they will put into electing their people. Then when they see the actual returns come in they get to experience the Wisconsin recall failure all over again on a much larger scale.
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I was wondering how that was even possible. Makes mores sense now. Thanks, Peter.
That aside, I think some of this is to de-legitimise a Romney win, and/or make it easier to steal an election, instigate recounts, or commit voter fraud.
Rasmussen polls have always been reliable and balanced, partly because they filter for likely voters, and they now show Romney in the lead since mid july.
Appreciate the analysis. It seems odd the WSJ is involved in such an over sampling poll.
More importantly, is your bold face reference a quote from Texas Ranger Jack Hays?
Actually that’s General Sheridan near the end of the war at Five forks
All these polls are really designed to disguise the massive vote fraud the Dems will perpetrate during the election. Why do you think Eric Holder is fighting Voter ID laws? They make vote fraud a lot harder.
So when they do cheat, they will have polls like this to hide the fact.
Note the typo – Obamacase:
“So in the poll the number of people who supported Obamacase”
That’s what I get staying up all night uploading congressional debate video, I’m on it
You know, I am starting to suspect, just a bit, that the big media favors Obama. Has anybody else noticed that? Just wondering . . .
Yeah. Funny how that DOES seem to be the case…I wonder why? Could it be that they are physically attracted to Obama? Or are they making money off him while pretending to be neutral. Or maybe they’re just hypocritical, partisan hacks in the best Riefenstahlian and Pravda-ian tradition.
Isn’t it funny how the networks can’t ever seem to find nearly as many Republicans as Democrats to poll? Time after time I see these polls with huge (and to my mind, completely delegitimizing) disparities in party identification. Garbage in, garbage out: they’re absolutely meaningless.
Gee, it’s almost like the networks and national media are desperately trying to construct polls which favor Obama – and they’re having a harder and harder time doing it.
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Ah, another poll that over-samples democrats, and they still have a hard time covering up the damage? You’re right. They’re demoralized!
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