“The Hispanic vote is going to be critical and Big Mac does very well there”
Sorry to impose actual facts on you, but by ALL accounts, Obama is leading McCain among hispanics by 33-34 points. The 2 most recent polls have Obama up 62-29 and 62-28.”
Evidence please!
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4328
Exit polls show a strong distaste among Hispanics for Ohhhh…..BAMA. An exit poll is considered to have a greater validity, since the voter has actually voted and it’s all still fresh in their mind. Some lie, of course (response bias), but that is true of RV’s and LV’s also. Some of who won’t vote.
Remember polls are about making money for the pollster. So Keeping the overhead down thru sample size and calling area is important to the pollster’s bottom line. So when you have a sample size of 300 a liar skews the results more then a sample size of 3,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_poll
I can produce polls showing the opposite;
http://www.imdiversity.com/Villages/Hispanic/politics_law/nam_mccain_0108.asp
I think you are referring to a Gallop poll. Gallop is a wholly owned subsidiary (joke!) of the Democratic party. IIRC, they were the ones that predicted a Kerry victory the evening of the last election. A prediction that CNN picked up and ran with, much to their regret. Or was that Gore? Nevermind, when you pay a pollster to deliver the results you want, don’t be shocked when those results are wrong.
Pew, which had the poll showing Big Mac with good support among Hispanics, is as much in the tank with Republicans as Gallop is with the Dems.
This is all my opinion, of course ( legal disclaimer), based on the polls by these business tending to be wrong yet skewed in the direction of the people paying them (what Republicans call ‘customers’).
AFAIK, there is NO regulation of the polling industry. Anyone with a TI-89 and a land line can set up in the polling business. If I was a hot looking blond and wanted to make millions from a standing position, I would start my own polling firm and try to become the expert for one of the MSM outlets. Of course, that might require a little horizontal functionality to get ones ‘foot’ in the door.
It would be nice to see the polling industry regulated, at least as much as the accounting industry is. I doubt that it will happen, since politicians see polls as tools to manipulate public opinion, So they won’t do anything to remove that tool from their box.
So you don’t have facts, you have polls. polls are opinions. They remain opinions, no matter how many of them there are or how long they are held.
Facts are made of actions. Not words. In November there will be a time for action, which will create a fact. All we have to do is wait and we will see who’s opinion was correct.
Right or wrong, it’s still an opinion. That is why they are called opinion polls. The powers that be want you to see they as facts. DON’T.
Practice ‘change’, see them as opinion.
