[lit-ideas] Re: America Bleeding

  • From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:00:41 +0900

Julie,
Check out the following at daily Kos.
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  Polling Open Thread III (Sun-Mon Edition)
by DemFromCT
  Sun Oct 31st, 2004 at 22:45:16 GMT



LV Two-way Tracking polls are here (Zogby and WMUR NH state trackers 
are lower on the page):

                  Bush  Kerry

Zogby     48    48    Sunday


  TIPP      47    42    Sunday


  Rasmussen 48.1  47.1  Sunday


  WaPo      48    48    Sunday


  Fox       46    47    Sunday



The tracking polls will be updated throughout the day. Here's an 
excellent analysis of the Zogby state trackers by Alan Abramowitz, 
pointing out that the movement in all the state polls suggest they're 
all showing sampling error noise and are too close to call from Zogby 
alone.

The average correlation in the day-to-day movements between each state 
and the other nine states ranges from -.16 for Michigan to .02 for 
Pennsylvania. The average correlation across all 10 states is -.08.

  Since October 24 the mean shift in the margin between Kerry and Bush 
across the ten states has been exactly zero. In the past 2 days, the 
mean shift has been 0.2 points toward Kerry.

  Conclusion--there is nothing going on here. The day-to-day shifts in 
the Zogby state tracking polls, like the day-to-day shifts in the 
national tracking polls are basically random.

  Nonetheless, there is comforting news in the Zogby numbers here from 
today.

  Late Sunday, there was a Pew Poll showing no effect from the Bin Laden 
tape (now CW, btw) and a K46-B45 RV, B48-K45 LV spread (with allocation 
of undecideds by Pew special sauce). CBS/NY Times has Bush 49-46 (LV). 
The NBC/WSJ poll shows Bush 48 Kerry 47 Nader 1 LV (and no effect from 
the Bin laden tape) - no link yet. Gallup comes in at 49-49.

  Once again, that doesn't mean the polls suck. It means all the polls 
show tight races, Bush is below 50 (usually at 48) and that a GOTV 
turnout win for Kerry is beyond polling's ability to predict.

General 2004 ::  Link & Discuss (43 comments, 43 new)

  
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