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Game On: Romney 49, Obama 45 - UPDATE: Ohio Tied

Stan306 Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 10:23 AM
If the intent of all this is to get me even more burnt out about the polls or perhaps caring less about what they twist to come up with results... You have successfully achieved your goal.
rmt5 in MA Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 10:32 AM
I feel the same way, Stan. Polls bore me.....even if some are becoming more in line with reality in the final month.

The bad news?  Pew's partisan split is R+1 (R+3 among likelies), which seems a few shades too optimistic for the GOP.  The good news?  The media suddenly cares about partisan breakdowns in public opinion surveys.  After weeks of mocking conservatives as tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoiacs for wondering if polls with D+8 samples were all that predictive in the 2012 cycle, every member of the Beltway smart set -- from NBC to WaPo -- is eager to share an opinion about the likelihood of a partisan over-samples.  The difference?  Back then, it made Obama look stronger than he actually was.  Totally...

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