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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCNN headline: "Polls shed little light on race; Obama, Romney locked in tight race."
Meanwhile, 19 of 20 swing state polls a few days ago had Obama ahead.
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CNN headline: "Polls shed little light on race; Obama, Romney locked in tight race." (Original Post)
ashtonelijah
Nov 2012
OP
It's all good--counters complacency, gets more Obama supporters to the polls.
pointsoflight
Nov 2012
#1
pointsoflight
(1,372 posts)1. It's all good--counters complacency, gets more Obama supporters to the polls.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)2. Fuck them
Pieces of fucking shit over there. I literally imagine Wolf Blitzer as a turd wearing a tie. Its no wonder they are the lowest rated news network
SingleSeatBiggerMeat
(220 posts)3. WILL YOU PLEASE JUST SHUT UP!
They are working a narrative and you ain't helping at all.
trof
(54,256 posts)4. Yeah, and I call "BULLSHIT!"
zbdent
(35,392 posts)5. Don't you know?
Obama doesn't get "momentum" ... Republicans get "momentum".
polichick
(37,152 posts)6. CNN = Corporate Nutjob News
spockeye
(238 posts)7. CNN: WW2 still too close to call. n/t
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)8. "voters refuse to buy bullshit media mystified".
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)9. There are none so blind as those who will not see.....nt
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)10. That's ok, I would rather people think it's close
The last thing the Obama campaign wants is complacency.
md83
(15 posts)11. Political Polling Is No Longer Meaningful
Political Polling Is No Longer Meaningful
The truth is that we have no idea who is ahead in the presidential race. Opinion polling has entered uncharted territory as response rates have plummeted.
When you receive an unexpected call from a private number or 1-800 number, do you answer the phone? Most people don't, and those who do are hardly a representative sample of the American population. Yet the results of all major political polls are based on the assumption that the 9 percent of us who answer the phone are perfectly representative of the 91 percent who don't...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12418-political-polling-is-no-longer-meaningful
The truth is that we have no idea who is ahead in the presidential race. Opinion polling has entered uncharted territory as response rates have plummeted.
When you receive an unexpected call from a private number or 1-800 number, do you answer the phone? Most people don't, and those who do are hardly a representative sample of the American population. Yet the results of all major political polls are based on the assumption that the 9 percent of us who answer the phone are perfectly representative of the 91 percent who don't...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12418-political-polling-is-no-longer-meaningful
rightsideout
(978 posts)12. It's too close to call
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Odin2005
(53,521 posts)13. CNN is worse than FOX.
At least Fucks Snooze make no bones about being RW propaganda, CNN pretends to be objective.
Azathoth
(4,611 posts)14. CNN headline: Cable ratings race too close to call!