This is what to expect during this political season. Biased polls from the MSM showing democrats in the lead.
CBS and the New York Times have a new poll out that looks at the Democratic primary race and at the general
election. In the former, it uses a rather small sample, but in the
latter the sample gets weighted -- as usual -- in favor of Democratic
voters. Barack Obama has taken a lead in the national numbers for the
primary, not exactly breaking news:
How did CBS reach this conclusion? They polled 427 Democratic voters.
That isn't an exceptionally strong sample, and it produces a conclusion
that is a likely outlier. Gallup, AP, and Rasmussen all show Obama leading but in a much closer race.
The
problems increase when the poll includes Republicans. They show Obama
beating John McCain by twelve points, 50-38. However, the sampling and
weighting explains the strange notion that John McCain would only get
38% of a general election vote. The sample of 1152 respondents
comprises 358 Republican voters, 420 Democrats, and 337 independents.
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