Do people forget to listen to the registered vs likely voter qualifier?

[NJmaverick]

McCain has lead in every LIKELY voter poll I have heard and Obama has lead in every REGISTERED voter poll. NOTHING has changed with the release of today's poll. If you are really worried, I suggest you make another donation to Obama's campaign or sign up to work for them. Otherwise all the panic threads and what Obama is doing wrong threads, are simply a waste of time and energy.

[WeDidIt]

1. It's not really panic

PUMAs have been looking for any excuse to go off half cocked.

[Egnever]

2. Screw that. Its over I tell you!

Obama has lost! he just doesn't know how to win an election. His campaign is stupid and if he had been up against a better field of dems he would have never won!

Haven't you been paying attention?

[NatBurner]

3. they probably wouldn't consider me a "likely" voter

yet i haven't missed one since 1988-

so these pollsters can basically kiss my ass while i mobilize my other non-likely voter friends, family and neighbors to get out and vote

[Brotherjohn]

4. Oh, is this another one of THOSE?

I remember the last poll McCain led by anything more than a point was one of those, too, about a month ago.

[NJmaverick]

7. Yeah and the reaction was pretty much the same

[Brotherjohn]

8. If they have data on "Likely Voters", they must have broader data...

... on either Registered Voters, or whatever larger, more objectively defined group of people they polled. They've have to, in order to have asked those people questions to define them (subjectively) as "likely voters".

So my question is: What are the REAL poll results?

[DefenseLawyer]

5. It's far more important to say "I told you so".

than to elect a Democrat. I mean politics is a sport, right?

[rinsd]

6. Make sure you explain the likely voter model.

Which usually depends on past voting in Presidential elections.