SandBox Utah: Hot Air Blog "About that CNN poll …"

Ed Morrissey:
"Allahpundit wrote a lengthy piece about last night’s CNN poll, complete with some insightful commentary about the cross-tabs.  If you missed it — and by the number of comments on the post, it doesn’t appear than many of you have — be sure to read it now.  However, the sample data, as AP pointed out, lacked a few details, most prominent of which was the partisan split of the sampling.  Given the inclination of media polls to use wildly unrepresentative D/R/I splits in their samples, the lack of transparency on that point is telling.

That might not be the biggest problem with the poll, though.  Its biggest problem is … math.  Reader Raymond O did some math and asked a rather interesting set of questions in an e-mail last night about how CNN did theirs.  First, let’s start with the topline results, as reported by CNN: Obama 52%, Romney 43% among registered voters, 53/41 among all respondents.  If that’s the case, then the number of respondents in the latter case voting for Obama should be 538, and the number supporting Romney 416....."
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SandBox Utah: Rasmussen Reports "What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls "

"The game is on: Mitt Romney is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee following Rick Santorum’s decision Tuesday to put his campaign on hold.

Romney has been at center stage during the GOP primary process. Now, Scott Rasmussen explains in his latest syndicated column, President Obama “becomes the defining figure of the general election campaign.

Now it's about Obama, not Romney, as the election becomes primarily a referendum on his first term in office.”

The two men have been running neck-and-neck for weeks in our daily presidential tracking poll, and it’ll be interesting to see if the numbers change in any way now that the Republican contest is essentially at an end.

Rasmussen Reports will continue releasing daily Obama-Romney matchup findings every morning at 9:30 Eastern from now until Election Day...." (Read more?  Click title)

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