Here is my recent poll summary from yesterday (link).
AUGUST 22--- Rick was up 49 to 41...
AUGUST 24-28--- Then Rick fell and was only up 44.4 to 40.6.
AUGUST 25-29--- Also Rick fell even more and was up by 42-41...
AUGUST 29-31--- But then Rick surged back into the lead and Bill White cratered 50-38...
SEPTEMBER 2-6--- But then Rick fell a little and Bill White recovered, making it 48-42...
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If the over under is 7 points on this race... take the over... Bill White has spent millions on television ads... Rick has been keeping his powder dry for the final push... Bill White just can't gain any traction... even if you believe he has chipped away some at Rick's numbers...
One commenter on my polling blog yesterday (link) said...
The way that you said this:
"I don't know anything about this poll other than it was done by Zogby and was paid for by a Democrat..."
Seemed like you were calling out Zogby. You didn't need to say it, but it was a reference to him being Jewish.
Uh... what? First of all Zogby is not even Jewish... second of all this is unreal... anyone who can read some kind of religious prejudice from that statement is off their rocker... probably should seek psychiatric treatment or take some remedial English classes...
What is the deal with Zogby anyway? He is called the worst pollster in the world by the New York Times' liberal stat guy Nate Silver (link) and also that "Zogby broke the internet" (link) because his polls are so bad...
Dead last...
It is not just liberals like Nate Silver. Conservatives don't like Zogby either (link)...
Rasmussen is rated pretty highly... I don't see Wilson Research or Hill (not to be confused with the publication "The Hill") on there... PPP gets good ratings nationally as well although they have a terrible track record in Texas...
Bottom line take away here is that people in the media reading so much into a couple of questionable polls are making fools of themselves... writing stories as if everything is suddenly different... writing lengthy articles about what Bill White is doing right and Rick is doing wrong based on a couple of polls paid for by liberal trial lawyers... taken before another poll showing Rick up by 12... that is just really dumb...
Zogby is called into question for their internet polls. The one that came out was a telephone poll to likely voters.
ReplyDeleteNot that "facts" matter, but...there ya go.
A liberal claiming to use facts, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day!!! And I've seen/heard a lot of funny things today. For the record.
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