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NBC/WSJ Poll: Oversampling | 51 comments (51 topical)

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But, but but . . . (none / 0) (#31)
by nycstray on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:24:42 PM EST
I thought they were going to leave the party? /snark

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The key finding of this poll: Clinton's Negatives (none / 0) (#59)
by sar75 on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 06:30:55 AM EST
....is that only 37% of respondents are willing to say they have positive feelings about Hillary Clinton, while 48% have a negative feelings. Obama is 49-32 the other way. I wonder why that's not giving some Clinton supporters pause.

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What has given me (none / 0) (#68)
by waldenpond on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 09:58:38 AM EST
the most pause is where 28% of Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama and another 13% will stay home, total: 41%.  For Obama supporters not voting for Clinton it is I believe 19 and 9, total: 28%.   The medida seemed to focus on that quite a bit yesterday.  Even CNN tried the unfavorable stat and other talking heads kept bringing it back to the 28/19 and one kept making the dig of 41%.  Some talking heads think Clinton supporters will vote D no matter what.  I question that belief as the number unwilling to vote for Obama has steadily grown with successive polls.

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Her negs don't always effect her vote (none / 0) (#82)
by nycstray on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 04:41:23 PM EST
if they did, why is this still a race?

His negs are rising, so it will be interesting to see if his voters stick.

I don't like everything either of them do, but for me (and I suspect for many of her voters), it's who I feel will do the best job on the things I care about once in office. I live under the rule elections are ugly, what's next when it's over.

And I don't care how 'nice' anyone says they'll play. It's never true. Our latest example: Obama.
McCain called him on it yesterday . . .

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A couple of things (none / 0) (#85)
by cal1942 on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 08:17:45 PM EST
Remember that this poll included Republicans.  I wonder how they were weighted.  Were they weighted by what the pollster believes to be crossovers or were they just lumped in with Democrats. It seems odd that ANY Republicans would be included in such a poll because even if weighted by some arbitrary crossover factor it would seem that it would be difficult to place that fine a point.

It certainly would be cheaper to poll anyone who answers the phone as opposed to making enough calls to get a sample of Democrats only.

The other THING is that post-Lewinsky Bill Clinton's personal approval (for what it's worth) was well under 50% but his job approval ratings were (as I remember) at 60% and better.  

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