Poll: Obama's rating at all-time high

Having an equal amount of Democrats and Republicans wouldn't be valid. You have to have about as many Democrats and Republicans as is in the general population. What retards you guys are. You honestly expect them to poll and equal amount of Democrats and Republicans, even though there may be more of one than the other?? You think it's oversampling Democrats otherwise?

Show me proof that the ratio of Democrat/Republicans in our society ISN'T roughly around 43/31 and I will believe that they oversampled. Otherwise, it was perfectly normal sampling.

God what retards.
 
Watermark said:
Having an equal amount of Democrats and Republicans wouldn't be valid. You have to have about as many Democrats and Republicans as is in the general population. What retards you guys are. You honestly expect them to poll and equal amount of Democrats and Republicans, even though there may be more of one than the other?? You think it's oversampling Democrats otherwise?

Show me proof that the ratio of Democrat/Republicans in our society ISN'T roughly around 43/31 and I will believe that they oversampled. Otherwise, it was perfectly normal sampling.

God what retards.
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There are roughly 55 million registered Republicans. There are roughly 72 million Democrats. And there are roughly 42 million registered independents.
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_registered_republican_voters_are_there_in_America

Now lets do the math.

NBC poll 43/(43+31)= 58%

Wiki.answers 72/(72+55+42)= 43%
 
Southern Man said:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_registered_republican_voters_are_there_in_America

Now lets do the math.

NBC poll 43/(43+31)= 58%

Wiki.answers 72/(72+55+42)= 43%
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For another thing, the amount of people identifying with each party changes even as vote registration stays the same. Some people just don't feel like bothering with going out and changing it, but they'd still state party preference differently in the poll.

For yet another thing, you compared Republicans to Democrats, and got that 58% in the poll prefer one to the other, and completely left out independents (43 + 31 /= 100). In the comparison of voter registrations, you include independents, which is naturally going to greatly move the margins down.
 
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Watermark said:
....you compared Republicans to Democrats, and got that 58% in the poll prefer one to the other, and completely left out independents (43 + 31 /= 100). In the comparison of voter registrations, you include independents, which is naturally going to greatly move the margins down.
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That's the point dummy. Its how NBC skewed the poll. :rolleyes:
 
Watermark said:
The poll didn't exclude independents. You can get the number of independents by adding 43 and 31 and subtrracting from 100... 26%.

So when you 43/(43+31+26) you get... 43%. Oh yeah.

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Did you just admit that I was right? Has hell frozen over? :eek:
 
Southern Man said:
Somehow I knew you couldn't....
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I don't think you understand what I said.

Your math was faulty. You got the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the NBC poll and compared it to the ratio of Democrats to Republicans and Independents nationwide and said that there was a huge bias. I pointed out how this was faulty, and that once you subtract the Republican + Democrat numbers from one hundred to get the percentage of independents included in the poll, and add it all up, you get exactly 43%, so the figures from the poll match up exactly to voter registration rolls.

I was actually a little surprised to see such a close correlation there, but I guess they specifically checked for that when they did the poll.
 
Watermark said:
I don't think you understand what I said.

Your math was faulty. You got the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the NBC poll and compared it to the ratio of Democrats to Republicans and Independents nationwide and said that there was a huge bias. I pointed out how this was faulty, and that once you subtract the Republican + Democrat numbers from one hundred to get the percentage of independents included in the poll, and add it all up, you get exactly 43%, so the figures from the poll match up exactly to voter registration rolls.

I was actually a little surprised to see such a close correlation there, but I guess they specifically checked for that when they did the poll.
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What you don't seem to understand is that NBC didn't report the independents, thereby making the approval numbers for Obama look a lot higher than reality.
 
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