Election 2009 actual results: Bob McDonnell 58.6 percent for a 17.4 percent margin of victory. Virtucon rankings are based upon total amount the two numbers deviate from the actual numbers.
1. Survey USA (10/30-11/1) – 58% / 18% (deviation 1.2%)
2. VCU (10/21-25) – 54% / 18% (deviation 5.2%)
3. (TIE) PPP (10/31-11/1) – 56% / 14% (deviation 6%)
3. (TIE) Roanoke College (10/21-27) – 53% / 17% (deviation 6%)
5. Suffolk Univ. (10/26-28) – 54% / 14% (deviation 8%)
6. Rasmussen (10/27) – 54% / 13% (deviation 9%)
7. Washington Post (10/22-25) – 55% / 11% (deviation 10%)
8. Times Dispatch / Mason Dixon (10/28-29) – 53% / 12% (deviation 11%)
9. Daily Kos / Research 2000 (10/26-28) – 54% / 10% (deviation 12%)
10. Virginia Pilot / CNU (10/8-13) – 45% / 14% (deviation 17%)
11. Clarus (10/18-19) – 49% / 8% (deviation 19%)
Next time you see a poll, judge it by its past performance. Here is how they rank in terms of accuracy based upon the 2008 presidential election:
MOST ACCURATE:
1T. Rasmussen (11/1-3)**
1T. Pew (10/29-11/1)**
3. YouGov/Polimetrix (10/18-11/1)
4. Harris Interactive (10/20-27)
5. GWU (Lake/Tarrance) (11/2-3)*
6T. Diageo/Hotline (10/31-11/2)*
6T. ARG (10/25-27)*
8T. CNN (10/30-11/1)
8T. Ipsos/McClatchy (10/30-11/1)
POLL REVEALED TO BE FRAUDULENT AND REPUDIATED BY DAILYKOS:
10. DailyKos.com (D)/Research 2000 (11/1-3)
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(If you're below DailyKos, you don't deserve to be taken seriously for another four years. Better luck in 2012.)
POLLS THAT WERE WORSE THAN A FRAUDULENT POLL:
11. AP/Yahoo/KN (10/17-27)
12. Democracy Corps (D) (10/30-11/2)
13. FOX (11/1-2)
14. Economist/YouGov (10/25-27)
15. IBD/TIPP (11/1-3)
16. NBC/WSJ (11/1-2)
17. ABC/Post (10/30-11/2)
18. Marist College (11/3)
19. CBS (10/31-11/2)
20. Gallup (10/31-11/2)
21. Reuters/ C-SPAN/ Zogby (10/31-11/3)
22. CBS/Times (10/25-29)
23. Newsweak (10/22-23)
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To think, Huckabee recently criticized Chris Matthews for going off his meds. OK, Chris Matthews probably IS off his meds, but Huckabee shouldn’t make these kinds of Obama remarks afterwards.
Geez, even the birthers — and God knows those people are whack — don’t think Obama GREW UP in Kenya.
Why is it whacked to ask for a birth certificate that matches the circa of the one Obama is supposed to have if indeed he was born in Hawaii, Steve??
Every President in the last 40 years has released all of their documents (up to their passports) and as they’ve done so, why is it so hard for the White House to release the “real” deal (long form) along with his school transcripts??
I think they want to keep the drama going in order to try and make their opponents look crazy by feeding the conspiracy theory by withholding information. Plus there is probably something else on the form that they don’t want out there such as parents’ marital status or maybe even that Barack Sr. isn’t Jr.’s biological father, but Frank Marshall Davis is — who knows? They should stop playing games and just end this once and for all by releasing the long-form that skeptics have asked to be released.
I concur on one thing – Chris Matthews is off his meds! He is the Charlie Sheen of cable news.
Don’t get me started on Sheen. He now wants to pump up his pay on the back of so much misbehavior and travesty. Generally in the real world, that equates to a demotion, if you get to keep your job at all.
Riley, I concur. I’ve never been much on the conspiracy theory, but a release of the document(s) would definitely put it to rest, if there was nothing remarkable about the documents. Holding them back from public viewing intimates a number of things.
Obviously they don’t want to put it to rest for whatever reason.
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