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In reply to the discussion: Magic Presto How DU moved a pollster 5 points to the left. [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)51. No, I think that poll was error.
It was Mason-Dixon, not Gallup as I thought. Certainly there were a couple pollsters who were just spewing propaganda, like Gravis. MD actually is a polling company, and this poll was done for non-partisan news outlets. WHere they went wrong (and many of the other polls), was their LV model falsely assumed Dems had an enthusiasm gap, thus wouldn't repeat the minority and youth turnout of 2008. But OFA in fact had a strong ground game that didn't stop after 2008... they kept building the base in AA barbershops, Hispanic beauty salons,etc. The minority and youth turnout even exceeded 2008, which caught both pollsters and the GOP by surprise, and offset the losses Obama had with Independants.
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Good point and others like O'Reilly will be anxious to point it out as well so that they can take
grantcart
Nov 2012
#45
You are most welcome. It was the first sign that we'd won this, when you outted that liar. nt
LaydeeBug
Nov 2012
#43
Good job, friend! What a night. We won Harris County (Houston) by 2 votes - Total.
thevoiceofreason
Nov 2012
#15
Thank you, it was such a carefully conceived and perfectly executed con that it did in fact
grantcart
Nov 2012
#24