FUCK NEWSWEEK!

[milkyway]

It's bad enough that their poll methodology results in repugs outnumbering Dems by 3% in the poll they released today. But apparently a day before the election they are going to put the damn thing on their Monday cover saying, "Breaking for Bush?" According to them, bush is up 51%-45%. But their poll oversamples repugs by a 7% margin compared to the 2000 data (and their are plenty of good reasons dems will outnumber by repugs even more this Tuesday).

If you subscribe to Newsweek, save the issue, then send it back to them after Kerry wins with your cancellation.

Here's the link to Newsweek, and a link to mydd.com that discusses this (an excellent blog).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6367631/site/newsweek/

http://www.mydd.com/

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Are you sure they are putting it on the cover?

[are_we_united_yet]

2. Why do they do that?

Is it because there are more Democrats than Republicans? So they oversample Republicans to make it statistically balanced?



:shrug:

[milkyway]

7. I think they make random phone calls. repugs answered more than dems.

[are_we_united_yet]

19. Oh.

I thought they purposely picked a jhigher number of one affiliation to counter balance that the other group is better represented as far as registration is concerned.

[sandnsea]

12. Historically, Pubs vote, Dems don't

When Dems vote, Dems win. I wish Democrats understood this, every last one of them. That's why they weight it that way, to reflect voting trends. There would be very few Republicans in office if we would just vote, every single election.

[are_we_united_yet]

17. I know

it sounds so easy (it is) but it in practice it seems to be an act of God to get people to vote.

[slestak]

3. completely irresponsible...

I have never subscribed and now I never will. The issue that comes out right before the election should be neutral.

[Pirate Smile]

4. We should be raising hell now to stop it. Why would they do that?

[batchdem04]

5. where does it say that its on the magazine cover?

that would b the dumbest thing ever if they did that.

[milkyway]

8. mydd.com says it will be. I was wondering that myself. It's amazing

they will use one deeply flawed poll to jump to a conclusion that millions of Americans will see and hear about on Monday.

[milkyway]

6. I forgot to include the link to the poll details. Here it is.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=617800&TICK=NEWS&STORY=/www/story/10-30-2004/0002323285&EDATE=Oct+30,+2004

[Bleacher Creature]

9. With the week that Bush had. . .

it's implausible to suggest that he held his ground.

To suggest that he gained ground is LAUGHABLE.

[Pirate Smile]

10. I don't see where it states that it will be on the cover. Where is that?

[LizW]

11. I can't believe they'd be that stupid

Doesn't Newsweek hit newstands on Tuesday? Their mistake is going to be staring out at people for almost a week if they're wrong.

[iamjoy]

15. And If They're Right...

They get to say they called it first.
If they are wrong, well....Dewey Defeats Truman.

[GoBlue]

13. Dewey Wins?

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

14. Do you think maybe this would help us?

I mean listen, if they put that on their cover, then maybe that will keep some of the GOPers at home? When they (R) see the cover and think hey * is in a comfortable lead, I won't need to go to the polls. The line are too long anyways.


At the same time it gets the Dems fired up because they see our boy is behind. I would like to think this would work in our favor.

[Pump Man]

16. Look at the complete poll 7% undecided but 12% say still making up their m

about 20% OF THESE PEOPLE POLLED DO NOT KNOW WHERE THEY SHITTED LAST
VOTE---http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6092749

[The Wielding Truth]

18. Write to stop it >>>>>>>>> Now

[e-mail] <[e-mail]>

[Sebum]

20. their partisanship is unveiled!

[NJGeek]

21. Good for us

more people will think they're vote means something and come to the polls

[high density]

22. Anything to get that "vote for the winner" voting block!

But this article is "web exclusive" so I'm not sure what that means regarding the cover.

[Catt03]

23. Very interesting information in comments at mydd.com also

errr...in blog