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Title: faux bravado from Obama/Dem pollster
Post by: franksolich on October 31, 2008, 09:19:21 AM
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/6970

Okay, now I'm not fond of trying to excerpt long articles (but one must, of course), and this is full of all sorts of technical data that would probably interest only political geeks, but this is WELL WORTH reading at the link above.

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In an attempt to answer McCain’s internal poll numbers, showing McCain has a good chance to pull a hat out of a rabbit here in the final days, an Obama/Dem pollster (not sure which) tips his hand mathematically and confirms the McCain camp’s claims. Here is a item by item analysis and an important summary, but remember this is statistical math jabber and few really can claim to parse this accurately.  I will give it a shot (no promises!)

Basically, the article shows how polls have been deliberately skewed; it doesn't just say "polls have been deliberately skewed;" it actually shows how polls have been deliberated skewed.