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Posted 10:36 AM
By Paul Gattis
On the same morning a poll said Roy Moore has his biggest lead in weeks, another poll gave Doug Jones his biggest lead of the Alabama Senate general election campaign.
Jones, the Democratic nominee, holds a 10-point lead over Republican nominee Moore, according to a Fox News poll released on Monday.
Earlier, an Emerson College poll pegged Moore with a 9-point advantage over Jones ...
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/doug_jones_surges_to_largest_l.html
shraby
(21,946 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)Do not believe this poll. Fox news wants Jones voters to stay home and wants to motivate Moore voters to vote.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)By Bob Fredericks
December 11, 2017 | 10:35am | Updated
... Moore initially said he knew some of the women but never dated them.
His story later changed, and he now insists that he doesnt know any of them ...
... Alabama voters by a 6-point margin believe the allegations against Moore are true, 39 percent to 33 percent ...
Jones lead comes mostly from nonwhites, younger voters and women .. Fox .. said ...
https://nypost.com/2017/12/11/doug-jones-holds-10-point-lead-over-roy-moore-in-fox-poll/
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Could it be they want to discourage voter turnout for Jones. Just saying
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)GOTV!!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)It shows that the same polling group using the same methods had almost the same result the last time it polled in November, no surging, in fact Jones is up a bit.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/11/fox-news-poll-enthused-democrats-give-jones-lead-over-moore-in-alabama.html
The problem for pollsters is to determine who is a "likely voter" in such an unusual election. This is the most interesting point IMO
A subtle but potentially noteworthy finding is Alabama voters who were interviewed on cellphones are +30 for Jones, while the race is roughly even among all others. The fact that traditional, high-quality probability samples, like the Fox News Poll, include both landline and cellphone numbers may be why these polls show Jones doing relatively well compared to automated or blended polls.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)So when moore wins they can tout:
"See President trump has turned politics on it's ear, no poll is to be believed"
More propaganda.