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Brinbe

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Hobbestetrician said:
They still have Pennsylvania and Michigan listed as toss-ups right now so I think we can safely ignore their map. I thought they were just an aggregating site but slowly started to see their right slant with the videos/articles they posted and how they decided toss-ups.
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Yeah, RCP has always had a blatant rightly-slant, but it's a useful aggregating site, as you said, especially for polling and general news. Just ignore their analysis.

Anyway, that Reuters poll is just more bad news for Obama.
 
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AniHawk

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If he wins this shitty state again, then this place would be totally redeemed for me. If he gets Florida then he just needs to win any other battleground. After voting in horrible senators and governors recently, fuck you Rubio and Rick Scott, its time to redeem yourselves Florida.
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he already has nevada. if he wins florida, he could lose iowa, ohio, virginia, north carolina, colorado, wisconsin, and new hampshire, and win the election.
 
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Downhome

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From Drudge, and yeah I know, but still...

DEBATE 3 RATINGS:

FOXNEWS pulls over 11.5 million viewers -- making it FNC's highest rated telecast EVER... DEVELOPING...
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I expected it to be much lower considering everything else that was on and the fact that the subject, well, a lot of people just don't care about it.
 
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Cloudy

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...tion-markets-and-boost-mitt-romneys-fortunes/

Romney's surge on Intrade explained

Here’s the backstory: On Monday night, after the debate, Barack Obama was leading Romney on Intrade by around 60 percent to 40 percent. But at around 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, Romney had surged to 48 percent. Was this evidence that the conventional wisdom was wrong? Had Romney actually won the debate handily? Or, perhaps, was the nosedive in the stock markets putting a dent in Obama’s re-election chances?

Neither. As economist Justin Wolfers pointed out on Twitter, the huge swing toward Romney appears to have been driven by a single trader who spent about $17,800 pushing Romney’s chances on Intrade up to 48 percent. But the surge only lasted about six minutes before other traders whittled the price back down to what they saw as a more accurate valuation. Romney’s odds of winning are now back at around 41 percent.

As Wolfers pointed out, this mysterious trader ended up overpaying by about $1,250 for shares that quickly collapsed in value. Was this just someone who made a bad trade? Or was somebody trying to influence Intrade odds in order to sway perceptions of the race? And, if so, was it worth $1,250 to jolt the markets for less than 10 minutes?
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Cloudy

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Hobbestetrician said:
They still have Pennsylvania and Michigan listed as toss-ups right now so I think we can safely ignore their map. I thought they were just an aggregating site but slowly started to see their right slant with the videos/articles they posted and how they decided toss-ups.
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They are definitely a right-leaning site. Just read the headlines
 
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AniHawk

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Downhome said:
From Drudge, and yeah I know, but still...



I expected it to be much lower considering everything else that was on and the fact that the subject, well, a lot of people just don't care about it.
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11.5m sad, depressed people.

gonna stand by my 50m for the debate as a whole. up considerably over the 2008 third debate, down considerably from the previous two.
 
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Black Mamba

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PhoenixDark said:
Romney still surging. If it doesn't stop this week...

I wish it was like Thursday or Friday so we'd have a better idea of what the debate did or didn't so
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Honestly I think we're just seeing mostly noise where they go up and down.

I partly wonder if weekend samples are more right leaning which would explain a bit.

It's impossible to discern how much of this is randomness. Key is Obama still ahead when you ignore gallup
 
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LosDaddie

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witness said:
If he wins this shitty state again, then this place would be totally redeemed for me. If he gets Florida then he just needs to win any other battleground. After voting in horrible senators and governors recently, fuck you Rubio and Rick Scott, its time to redeem yourselves Florida.
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I'll be early voting on MOnday (at 7am), but I don't expect Obama to win FL. But hey, what do I know?
 
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AniHawk

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Black Mamba said:
Honestly I think we're just seeing mostly noise where they go up and down.

I partly wonder if weekend samples are more right leaning which would explain a bit.

It's impossible to discern how much of this is randomness. Key is Obama still ahead when you ignore gallup
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gallup and rasmussen.
i don't ignore either

in 2008, weekend samples were left-leaning, as younger people would actually be home during the day to answer phone calls.
 
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electricpirate

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RustyNails said:
So same as last time when IBD polled.

Pretty sure the polls have stuck on a 1-2 point Obama lead. Gallup is the only outlier that's being driving the numbers down.
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That's pretty optimistic, polling averages have been tied/sub 1 advantage to Romney the past few days nationally.

Obama's lead in the Swing state continues to hold though.
 
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AniHawk

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electricpirate said:
That's pretty optimistic, polling averages have been tied/sub 1 advantage to Romney the past few days nationally.

Obama's lead in the Swing state continues to hold though.
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talking points memo has obama at 0.5, rcp has romney at 0.7, 538 has obama at 1.2

538 will likely drop. tpm has the same numbers rcp does though. i think tpm weights them, and rcp does a straight-up average.

also: ppp polls out today? i thought that was the case.
 
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Kurtofan

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Interesting graph, sorry if this was already posted.

aLPMt.gif
 
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Earthstrike

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Just out of curiousity, with respect to the presidential race. What is the current electoral vote count for all states that are considered to be locked for Obama and Romney?
 
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pigeon

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Kurtofan said:
Interesting graph, sorry if this was already posted.
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The funniest thing about that graph to me is Kenya's super high rate of participation -- they're third in support for Obama and first in support for Romney. They've all got opinions!

Also a little sad how disaffected Mexico is and amusing how much Spain hates Romney for mocking them in the first debate.
 
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Effect

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Speaking of Ohio. The county that is suppose to have the voting machines that are owned by the company Tagg Romney is invested in. Are they in dem counties or republican counties? I know some people are reporting on this but it has not been pick up by the big media and I doubt it will be. If there is really an issue I would hope at least the Obama campaign is looking into it or at least planning for situations like this.
 
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pigeon

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Earthstrike said:
Just out of curiousity, with respect to the presidential race. What is the current electoral vote count for all states that are considered to be locked for Obama and Romney?
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Obama: 207 (CA, NY, MA, ME, VT, CT, RI, NJ, DC, DE, OR, WA, MN, NM, NV, IL, MD, HI)
Romney: 206 (TX, AZ, UT, ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, MO, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, NC, WV, KY, IN, AK)
Really Obama: 243 (the above, plus PA and MI)
 
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markatisu

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pigeon said:
Obama: 207 (CA, NY, MA, ME, VT, CT, RI, NJ, DC, DE, OR, WA, MN, NM, NV, IL, MD, HI)
Romney: 206 (TX, AZ, UT, ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, MO, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, NC, WV, KY, IN, AK)
Really Obama: 243 (the above, plus PA and MI)
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This is the big picture everyone always missed, Obama basically starts off only needing 28 electoral votes and having a wide variety of options to get them. Romney starts needing 64 which makes it much much harder.
 
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GhaleonEB

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AniHawk said:
talking points memo has obama at 0.5, rcp has romney at 0.7, 538 has obama at 1.2

538 will likely drop. tpm has the same numbers rcp does though. i think tpm weights them, and rcp does a straight-up average.

also: ppp polls out today? i thought that was the case.
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RCP updates every day with the latest tracker. TPM updates each tracker with the frequency of their polling range. (So a 4-day tracker is updated every four days on TPM's averages.)

It makes their trendline less sensitive to the daily noise from all the trackers, but it can also cause a delay when there's a shift in the trackers to when it hits their averages.
 
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Beer Monkey

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Effect said:
Speaking of Ohio. The county that is suppose to have the voting machines that are owned by the company Tagg Romney is invested in. Are they in dem counties or republican counties? I know some people are reporting on this but it has not been pick up by the big media and I doubt it will be. If there is really an issue I would hope at least the Obama campaign is looking into it or at least planning for situations like this.
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Hamilton County usually goes red but it went blue in 2008. It's one of the counties.

In Ohio in 2004, some precincts had exit polls where Kerry overperformed up to 28% compared to the actual counted returns for those precincts. Statewide, Kerry won the exit polls by 4.2%, yet he lost the state by 2.5%.

I'm NOT a conspiracy theorist, but Ohio 2004 looked sketchy as fuck. I'd actually like someone to convince me otherwise. Hopefully the exit pollers fucked up somehow and the election was not stolen.
 
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