Showing posts with label Politics polling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics polling. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Washington Post Josh Voorhees: “Was Romney's Debate Win the Most Convincing in History? It Looks That Way.”



Writing for The Slatest, Josh Voorhees penned on Monday, “Was Romney's Debate Win the Most Convincing in History? It Looks That Way.”

According to Mr. Voorhees, “Gallup's latest survey shows just how overwhelmingly the American public thought Mitt Romney bested President Obama onstage in Denver last Wednesday: 72 percent of debate watchers gave the win to the GOP challenger with only 20 percent seeing the president as the winner.

That 52-point gap was the largest the polling outfit has ever seen, topping even Bill Clinton's 42-point margin over George H. W. Bush in 1992…”

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Deja vu for New Hampshire polls? - The Washington Post: "By Jon Cohen



A “fiasco,” one analyst called it. Another observer called it a “snafu.”

In short, the pre-election polls before the New Hampshire primary in 2008 were a disaster. The numbers had anticipated a clear result: It would be a second, major win for then-Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who had been the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination."