Republicans: Vote Now
@whimsystoryteller (1743)
United States
3 responses
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
21 Oct 08
This is not a legitimate poll, it's an advertizement trying to get people to subscribe to Personalliberty.com. Provide them with your email address so they can send you junk and add it to a list of email addresses they probably sell.
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@whimsystoryteller (1743)
• United States
21 Oct 08
They didn't ask me to buy anything. If you don't like it, don't take the poll.
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@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Real polls don't force you to sign up somewhere before seeing the results, lol.
Get this garbage out of here. There are plenty of real polls out there people can turn to for info.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
21 Oct 08
You misread what I posted. You need to be careful about what sites you give your email address to because some of them will compile a list of the email addresses they get and sell that list to spammers. Suddenly you're getting a bunch of spam and wondering how they got your email address.
@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Self-selected (especially online) samples make for bad polling. Statistics 101.
Look at the internals of "their" polls. "They" poll plenty of Republicans. Are you just trying to make an excuse for McCain losing in all the polls?
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@whimsystoryteller (1743)
• United States
21 Oct 08
I expected this type of comment from a Democrat. And, the polls are showing McCain gaining. And, excuse me, but the first lesson in Statistics is that you can make a poll show anything you want it to. I don't trust the polls of the liberal media for a moment.
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@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
21 Oct 08
"I expected this type of comment from a Democrat."
Well, maybe you would imply that Republicans are all unreasonable liars, but even I wouldn't go that far. 
"And, the polls are showing McCain gaining."
Elections ALWAYS tighten in the final weeks. Nate Silver's been talking about that for months now. Also, McCain's current position is summed up well here, by the stat nut (a label I use affectionately) himself:
"The central point is this: if McCain has gained ground -- and most likely he has -- then what he's done is reset the race to roughly where it was two weeks ago, when Obama also had roughly a 6-point national lead. Except, the two positions aren't entirely equal, since two weeks have run off McCain's clock. Roughly speaking -- and accounting for his inferior position in the electoral college -- McCain needs to gain about half a point per day every day between now and November 4 to become a favorite in the electoral college." -- http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
As the announcer on Smash TV said, "Good luck! Youuu'll need it!"
"And, excuse me, but the first lesson in Statistics is that you can make a poll show anything you want it to."
Sounds like you just undercut your claim that McCain is gaining. Good job.
"I don't trust the polls of the liberal media for a moment."
Oh, so the Washington Post is liberal now? Because their latest poll has Obama up 9: http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1077a3Tracking1.pdf
Correction: you disregard and label as "liberal" all polls that don't say what you want them to say.
See you in November. 
"And, the polls are showing McCain gaining."
Elections ALWAYS tighten in the final weeks. Nate Silver's been talking about that for months now. Also, McCain's current position is summed up well here, by the stat nut (a label I use affectionately) himself:
"The central point is this: if McCain has gained ground -- and most likely he has -- then what he's done is reset the race to roughly where it was two weeks ago, when Obama also had roughly a 6-point national lead. Except, the two positions aren't entirely equal, since two weeks have run off McCain's clock. Roughly speaking -- and accounting for his inferior position in the electoral college -- McCain needs to gain about half a point per day every day between now and November 4 to become a favorite in the electoral college." -- http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
As the announcer on Smash TV said, "Good luck! Youuu'll need it!"
"And, excuse me, but the first lesson in Statistics is that you can make a poll show anything you want it to."
Sounds like you just undercut your claim that McCain is gaining. Good job.
"I don't trust the polls of the liberal media for a moment."
Oh, so the Washington Post is liberal now? Because their latest poll has Obama up 9: http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1077a3Tracking1.pdf
Correction: you disregard and label as "liberal" all polls that don't say what you want them to say.
See you in November. @ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Oops, I gave the main fivethirtyeight link instead of the permalink. Use this instead:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/todays-polls-1020.html
@greysfreak (1384)
• United States
21 Oct 08
I'm not a republican, actually I'm a democrat--voted that way in 2006 midterm and 2004 was my first time voting, and I voted dem. But the more I think and really learn, the more I realize I'm more independent/middle of the road. Basically I'm more open-minded and less rigid than I thought. I did do this poll, though I tend to have my doubts about *any* poll. That being said, I have been moving more towards McCain for several months, watching him in debates (not just the recent ones, the ones in the summer too), and more and more I gain respect for him. I saw the results to this poll, and again, not sure how accurate, but I think it is accurate if it's mainly polling republicans.
The thing is, the media wants this thing to be sewn up, but that doesn't happen till Nov. 4th. When that last vote is *counted*, and if it says that Obama has won, well, I will accept it, will I be jumping for joy like some people? No, but I will be cautiously optimistic.
Oh, someone said how self reported polls aren't as accurate, I'm not really sure why you'd say that, as we saw with the primaries, for example, Obama was supposedly ahead in the New Hampshire polls, and the first thing the media started to discuss when he didn't win was whether or not people were honest when polled, and suggested that race played a factor in people's polling response, again, that's not my call--that's what even CNN said, which was the only news channel I watched at that time. So one has to wonder if that does play a roll, I could see some people when asked by a pollster in person or on the phone, feeling like they had to say Obama, considering the fact that with the campaign so extreme right now they throw accusations around about racism like the gov't throws around our money. In a self reported poll though, that includes no identifying information, they no longer had to worry about that. The only thing I'd worry about online polls and even offline are, are the participants *actually* registered and are they really gonna show up.
