Oct 28 2008

Wild Pew Poll

Published by at 1:02 pm under 2008 Elections,All General Discussions

Pew has come out with another one of those fanciful polls assuming a never before seen historic edge in Democrat turnout models.  The bottom line is Pew has Obama up 15% nationally, but to pull this off Obama needs to see Democrats turnout ahead of conservatives and the GOP by a crazy 39%-24% edge – or 15%. Historically the largest discrepancy seen in the best of years for Democrats is 4%. Needless to say, if history is any guide Obama will be struggling a bit.

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5 Responses to “Wild Pew Poll”

  1. MarkN says:

    39-24-37. So the indies have become reps and the reps have become indies. it would be fine if it was 39D, 37R and 24I.

  2. Terrye says:

    Just a few weeks ago Pew had them tied. I wonder what the party breakdown was then?

    This is crazy, these polls are all over the place.

  3. OBloodyhell says:

    Methinks the Pew is aptly named.

  4. OBloodyhell says:

    > 39-24-37. So the indies have become reps and the reps have become indies. it would be fine if it was 39D, 37R and 24I.

    BINGO!

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