Gallup assumed it would be an honest election and that was the mistake. Remember all the precincts where Obama got 100%? That is impossible because some people accidentally vote for the wrong person. So all of those votes weren't really counted, and Obama did not really win the election.
Surprised more conservatives don't want to defend the polling organization that told them Obama was going to lose. Has the echo chamber sprung a leak?
Why is that? All polling currently done is by its' nature nothing but a guess based on lies from an already biased sample and almost always bad science. Unless polling can actually look at actions and not words, it will always be nothing but a waste of money. - - - Updated - - - Why is that? All polling currently done is by its' nature nothing but a guess based on lies from an already biased sample and almost always bad science. Unless polling can actually look at actions and not words, it will always be nothing but a waste of money.
hmmm Interesting op.. Surely Gallup polling could not be wrong, yet... exit polling data, as well as polls prior to the 2000 and 2004 elections as compared to vote counts, were all wrong. People believe what they want to believe because they listened to Fox spin all day every day... They heard Dick Morris tell them landslide for Romney, Rove going on and on about a certain win for Romney... and they got what they wanted to hear. The problem was they were not listening to what ROMNEY and RYAN were saying and thinking about why a majority of the US would not elect them to the Oval Office. Next time... GOPers need to nominate people who can win, but first, they must evolve to 2013... to the changed world we live in. Otherwise, its caput for GOP. Just say no to the Trumps, Bachman's, Perry's, Herman Cain's,,,,, and RAND PAUL
Everyone lies, everyone spins, everyone only hears what they want to hear and everyone only tells us what they want us to hear them say. It is ONLY from one's actions that the truth can be deduced. If the Republican party wants to nominate someone who can win the presidency they need to not evolve to 2013 but to 2020 and nominate some non-white crimalien(make sure he has can show some type of fake Hawaiian birth certificate) who doesn't speak English. They can even stick some hot babe next to him who would translate what he says all the time. That's a winner here in our current America for sure!!!
How can you possibly say its bad science when Nate Silver called the last two exactly correct? Its not that there is no way to do it accurately its that some places don't use the proper method. Polling can be extremely accurate if done right.
That's easy to explain. Gallop has not yet learned how to canvas cemeteries to see how many Obama voters there will show up on election day.
