What is with this?

[holiday]

Why is it some news articles say Obama has double digit lead and then other articles say it's neck and neck (IN THE SAME FREAKING DAY)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_poll_presidential_race


WASHINGTON – The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord.

[FatDave]

1. AP hyping an outlier poll by a second-rate pollster.

That's my take. I've never heard of Gfk and don't see them among fivethirtyeight.com's pollster ratings.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. AP is pushing this shit on the radio too.

Why the FUCK do Nova M and AAR continue to use this shitty excuse for a news service? They're almost as bad as FAUX.

[budkin]

3. Ron Fournier... nuff said... this poll is FLAT OUT WRONG.

[slackmaster]

4. They're just polls

Even with perfect sampling methods and unbiased, honest pollsters (which may not even exist at all), published results are going to be flat-out wrong (i.e. outside their stated percentage limits) about 5% of the time.

[bushisanidiot]

5. Obviously they've polling repukes only in that poll. Even Fox has Obama up by 9 pts. today.

either that, or AP is polling Florida and accidentally called it a national poll.

[holiday]

6. Well it's weird

because they are saying dead heat... and below that you can check election results every day

Obama has 300 and some electoral points

McCain has 160

How is that tied race??