[Vision2020] More Interesting Poll Data

[Pat Kraut]

In my reading and watching of CSPAN this is the most unreliable of the
polls. I don't like any of them. Its VooDoo stuff because of the way they
ask the questions. As well as how few they call and then call it good for
the whole nation. Its about as acurate as the ratings on TV....I guess thats
another email!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Force" <rforce at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:58 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] More Interesting Poll Data


> POLL: AMERICANS EVENLY DIVIDED OVER WHICH POLL THEY BELIEVE
> Gallup, Zogby in Statistical Dead Heat
>
> Americans are evenly divided over which presidential election poll they
> believe, with the Gallup poll and the Zogby poll drawing roughly the same
> number of likely voters, a new poll of likely voters reveals.
>
> In the poll, taken by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Public
> Opinion, 48% said they believed the Gallup poll and 47% trusted Zogby, a
> statistical dead heat, says Dr. Davis Bevins, who supervised the survey
for
> the Institute.
>
> "With just two weeks to go until the election, neither Gallup nor Zogby
has
> broken out," Dr. Bevins says. "It is really too close to call."
>
> Perhaps in response to the ever-tightening race between the rival polling
> companies, the competition between Gallup and Zogby has grown increasingly
> nasty in recent days, with both companies airing expensive negative
> television ads attacking each other.
>
> In one particularly vicious attack ad, Gallup accused Zogby of
> "flip-flopping" on whether Sen. John Kerry or President Bush was ahead in
> the race.
>
> But Zogby soon retaliated with an attack ad of its own, accusing Gallup of
> having a lesbian daughter.
>
> For his part, Dr. Bevins warns that the accuracy of his own poll may be
> suspect since the voters in the survey were contacted exclusively by
phone:
> "We find that a lot of people are unwilling to answer the phone these days
> because they're afraid it might be Bill O'Reilly."
>
> Andy Borowitz: The Borowitz Report
>
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