Comments on: Zogby Poll Rears Its Head Again, Right Wingers Swoon

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:32:26 +0000

To the left wing, only polls that sample 10-15% more democrats than repubs are legitimate. Only polls slanted to the left count. Nice logic.

By: News Reference

News Reference — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:23:23 +0000

There's a lot of competition for the title "the right's favorite son, while John Zogby certainly does his part so does pollster Scott Rasmussen. Scott Rasmussen's polls are more subtle, Scott Rasmussen gets the answers he wants by giving the questions right wing framing. Then Rasmussen reports the answer and unless you analyzed the question it wouldn't be immediately obvious that he had a dishonest right wing, partisan agenda.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:44:49 +0000

steno says: “Oh, good.
The inevitable “All polls suck – you can’t put your faith in polls” post should be just a few days away, then.”

You would have a point if Oliver was touting Zogby’s polls back when they were saying he was within the MOE in Oklahoma.

By: Right Jumps on Outlier Zogby Poll | Comments from Left Field

Right Jumps on Outlier Zogby Poll | Comments from Left Field — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:30:03 +0000

[...] straight talk: As we saw during the 2008 election, John Zogby’s polls are ridiculous. They’re ridiculous [...]

By: Jymn

Jymn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:02:33 +0000

John Zogby, the right’s favorite son. Ask John Zeigler. We’ll see how this poll bears out in the next week when other more legitimate polls surface. Then we’ll see what your memeomrandum ‘I’ll believe anything instapudding writes’ trolls say.

By: News Reference

News Reference — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:37:29 +0000

All polls have variance (“noise”), but Zogby’s polls have LOTS of “noise” and have been historically unreliable.

Some polls are better than others. Zogby’s polls just stink, Rasmussen polls have significant right wing bias.

THIS WEEKS POLLS FOR OBAMA’S APPROVAL RATING:

Rasmussen: 56%
Gallup: 65%
CBS News: 64%
Rasmussen: 55%
Gallup: 62%

Pollster.com’s average of multiple polls from different sources for Obama’s approval is currently: 59.1%
http://pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php

Zogby is what’s called an “outlier,” it’s regularly waaay outside the norm.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:10:25 +0000

No, you just can’t put your faith in a Zogby poll.

By: Applesauce » Controversial Zogby poll due today will purport to show big drop in Obama’s approval rating

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:58:40 +0000

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By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:34:21 +0000

When did entry-level statistics become partisan, I wonder.

By: steno

steno — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:28:09 +0000

Oh, good.

The inevitable “All polls suck – you can’t put your faith in polls” post should be just a few days away, then.

By: New poll spells doom for Obama? Nah, not really… | csmonitor.com

New poll spells doom for Obama? Nah, not really… | csmonitor.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:09:03 +0000

[...] Oliver Willis, in his entertaining “Like kryptonite to stupid” blog, provides his perspective. [...]

By: jr

jr — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:49:48 +0000

Zogby’s polls are like the polls on Bill O’Reilly’s site