Between Huckabee’s push-polling and the media’s ongoing poll-skewing, the word “poll” is an increasingly obscene four letter word. Ed Morrissey breaks down the latest offense by WaPo. It’s one more brick in the wall that embittered liberals will hide behind if McCain wins. If he loses, well, it’s simultaneously a mandate and Diebold just didn’t get away with any shenanigans this time. Heads they win, tails we lose.
That’s not the only problem in this poll. Party identification breaks down 40/28/28 for Democrats, Republicans, and independents, respectively. Rasmussen’s party identification surveys show a much different breakdown for the population: 38.7/33.1/28.2, which halves the gap shown in WaPo’s survey. The survey then asks how the independents lean, and winds up with almost a 20-point gap between Democrats and Republicans — 55/36/7.
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