Monday, September 15, 2008

The Untold Story of the Poll Numbers

I am sticking to my story that this election is going to be a landslide.

You may be thinking to yourself (you know who you are), Terry, given the national polls that show things to be very close, how is it that you are so confident that Obama is going to beat McCain upside the head with his own wooden teeth?

I would answer this way: Pollsters use census data to estimate how many Republicans and Democrats are going to vote, and then poll that many voters.

The Obama Campaign is registering new voters in states like Ohio in the Hundreds of Thousands. The poll takers simply are not taking this into account when conducting their polls.

I am not sweating the national polls, seriously I am not. Remember, Obama's got this

2 comments:

House of BonDrew said...

just so you Salman Rushdie and Janean Garofalo agreed with you on last weeks episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher", and those two aren't idiots.

Terry Gilmore said...

Well, Drew, I don't just make this stuff up, sometimes. Yes this is a fact. The polling is not counting right. Obama is slowly running away with this thing.

As long as the conversation centers on the Economy, John "I don't really understand the economy" McCain is losing. Period