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INdemo

(6,994 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:29 AM Oct 2012

How can this be?How does President Obama go from a 16 point lead with women voters

down to being even in just a few days..I think what happens is AP reporters put a story out on the wires and all the right wing web sites and Cable networks and (Yahoo) pick up on it as if it were gospel..
I don't believe it...
Some of these AP reporters may at one time written for the Weekly Standard Magazine or some other right wing rag and that tells it all.They try and continue their rhetoric on AP news service. As for NBC website,well it seems they scrape and claw for some sort of negativity and then try and make it sound like front page headline news...No way this is accurate

GfK poll: Romney erases Obama lead among women
By NANCY BENAC and JENNIFER AGIESTA Associated Press The Associated Press
Thursday, October 25, 2012 6:15 AM EDT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49546882

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How can this be?How does President Obama go from a 16 point lead with women voters (Original Post) INdemo Oct 2012 OP
Can people stop panicking about the internals of any particular poll, good or bad Mass Oct 2012 #1
Im not in a panic mode..I was just INdemo Oct 2012 #6
At this point, I don't believe any of the polls justiceischeap Oct 2012 #2
Other polls longeyemom Oct 2012 #3
We know who the AP is, but what do we know about GfK? Read on.... OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #4
Fake-ola. No women are moving to the Romney camp after these "rape" stories. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #5

Mass

(27,315 posts)
1. Can people stop panicking about the internals of any particular poll, good or bad
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:33 AM
Oct 2012

There is a thing such as bad sampling, particularly when the sample is small (may be 400 women, and who knows if this poll is weighted or not)

Take a deep breath, and ignore polls.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
6. Im not in a panic mode..I was just
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:58 AM
Oct 2012

trying to make a point that these right wing reporters and news organizations just dont give voters any credit for any smarts and expect us to believe this shit, especially after their candidate endorsed this Teabagger that believes women have no rights.Yes they expect us to believe that Rmoney closed a 16 point deficit over night..
The right wingers are happy knowing they have their conversation topic this morning.
They are desperate for something to keep their man propped up and they are failing to do so.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
2. At this point, I don't believe any of the polls
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:35 AM
Oct 2012

They're too off from what we're seeing on the ground. And after yesterday's debacle with Mourdock and RMoney "standing by his man" you can forget about the gap closing, it's going to widen further. The only women I know of that will definitely vote for RMoney are evangelicals and teabagger racists.

longeyemom

(22 posts)
3. Other polls
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:43 AM
Oct 2012

Show him up by 14 or 15 points with women in Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa. And I really don't think the women of Virginia are going to forget about vaginal probes so quickly.

OldDem2012

(3,526 posts)
4. We know who the AP is, but what do we know about GfK? Read on....
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 09:43 AM
Oct 2012

....this information is offered for information and discussion purposes without any personal opinion....

The GfK Group

QUOTE:

"The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (Society for Consumer Research) is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fifth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group, Ipsos (incl. Synovate) and IMS Health. It was founded by an association of university teachers, among them Ludwig Erhard, later Minister for Economics and Chancellor of Germany."

....and....

"The GfK Group is a worldwide market research organization providing services in the three sectors Custom Research, Retail and Technology and Media. The company's headquarters are in Nuremberg, Germany. GfK is a joint stock company and traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It is included in the SDAX index. The Group has a staff complement of 10,000+ employees and their market research services cover more than 100 countries across the world. The company signs off using the slogan "Growth from Knowledge"."


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