Mad Wombat

A moderately liberal Democraticly-themed blog

Category Archives: Polls

Politico’s Horrible, Terrible Poll

So Politico came out with a “Battleground” poll this morning that shows Romney ahead of Obama 48-47. I can deal with polls like this, but I’m often interested in the internals of such polls, especially when the previous poll done by the same group showed pretty wildly different results. There were a few wacky things [...]

Interesting Stats on Gallup Party ID Poll

I agree with some people on twitter that there may not be enough consistent data here to draw any statistical conclusions, and I don’t want to necessary make excuses for a drop in Democratic ID, which is never good, but there are some interesting coincidences in Gallup’s Party ID average. First, some notes.  I don’t [...]

Daily Kos getting into the BS Polling business?

Of course one can’t really trust any of the polling that Daily Kos ran back when they used Research 2000 since it came to light that R2000 was basically making shit up.  However, the questions and the type of polls they were at least supposedly asking people were generally well thought out I thought, and [...]

CBS News Poll: Some Interesting Tidbits

I know I’m a little late to the game on this CBS News poll released last Thursday, but a few of the results had be scratching my head.  Here are a few examples: 20% of Democrats are pleased about the election outcome.  Only 52% are displeased. Now, I suppose one can explain some of this [...]

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