Putting the Pollsters to the test

[Casey0211]

Originally Posted by thrasher

So how did the polls of likely voters work out for you? It appears that the polls that you consider silly polls were much more realistic.

Here's a great story about how the Right Wing media (Fox) and its pundits basically BS'd its viewers/readers into rejecting polls as "MSM propaganda," just as they deny so many other facts. The Right Wing echo chamber did the GOP in.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._election.html

But I have no doubt the Right will develop a new fantasy narrative to explain this loss.

[DJW]

Originally Posted by thrasher

So how did the polls of likely voters work out for you? It appears that the polls that you consider silly polls were much more realistic.

They were pretty damn close...what do you mean?

They basically had it with Romney with a 1 or 2 pt. lead going into the election with a 3% undecided and 3% margin of error.

I think if you check the results you'll find out they were right on the money. RCP was exact, Rasmussen was within 1% and Gallup within 2%. Seems pretty accurate to me.