FWIW Nate Silver had a pretty good explanation of why the polls were not biased. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/nov-2-for-romney-to-win-state-polls-must-be-statistically-biased/
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nov-1-the-simple-case-for-saying-obama-is-the-favorite/ And some other commentary about the tendency to cherrypick polls: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/falling-prey-to-the-dangerous-temptation-to-cherry-pick-polls/ On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not talking about who won or lost or why - talking about the polls > themselves. > > The company that runs the ONLY poll that gave Romney a lead just admitted > that their methodology was flawed and inaccurate...yet you still argue. > > Nice to know some things in life will never change. > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The polls are left leaning but that's not the issue. Romney lost because > he > > agreed with Obama's foreign policy in the last debate. Many conservatives > > originally willing to hold their noses and vote for him gave up and > stayed > > home because of that. > > > > . > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Maybe the polls are not 'left leaning' after all? > > > > > > http://usat.ly/10OnOsf > > > > > > -- > > > Scott Stroz > > > --------------- > > > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder > > > what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > > > > > http://xkcd.com/386/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364187 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
