Splain this

[NNN0LHI]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/244769-poll-obama-maintains-massive-lead-among-hispanics

Poll: Obama shows massive lead among Hispanic voters

By Jonathan Easley - 08/22/12 01:33 PM ET

Obama leads Mitt Romney 63 percent to 28, the same margin from the same poll last month, which he led 67-32.

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http://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=159918270

One Poll Finds Zero Percent Of Blacks Support Romney

Thursday, August 23, 2012

The poll has a margin of error of 3 percent. But, it may not be that far off: Obama won 96 percent of the black vote in 2008.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-obama-women-poll-2012-8

This Is The Number That Should Really Scare Mitt Romney

Grace Wyler | Aug. 21, 2012, 8:00 PM | 7,521 |

A new NBC/WSJ poll came out tonight, and one number is particularly worrisome for Mitt Romney. According to an NBC analysis of the poll, Obama leads Romney by a whopping 10 points among female voters, a key demographic that tends to turn out ...

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-presidential-poll-20120823,0,7979361.story

Obama has slight lead over Romney in new nationwide poll

The USC Annenberg/Los Angeles Times poll on Politics and the Press shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney 48% to 45% in a race one pollster labels 'static.'

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Look at those 4 news articles in their entirety.

Do you see something funny there?

Don

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. The pollster in the 4th link is not counting Hispanics, African-Americans or women?

Also, the last poll is the Los Angeles Times, which is owned by the conservative Chicago Tribune. But I bet that you already had that figured out.

[elleng]

2. ???Likely voters???

Registered voters?
National? States?

Apples/Oranges?

[DonRedwood]

3. We are seeing Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal underminding Romney....the Christian right

is turning on Romney. Murdoch has turned on his party of choice before. Just ask David Cameron how he became Prime Minister of England.

[DonRedwood]

4. oops...the fourth one is LA Times polling. I guess I didn't read far enough

[chollybocker]

5. Funny?

Downright hilarious.

But, but, maybe these polls were taken before the Ryan selection, and the inevitable *bump* in the polls among Blacks and Hispanics.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[livvy]

6. Sure must be a lot of white, non-Hispanic males out there that are stupid enough to prefer Romney.

How can he have such a notable lead among women, Hispanics, and African Americans yet still be static overall? That doesn't make sense.

[jwirr]

7. During the last election polls did not include people who had only cell phones. Is that still true?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Romney has painted himself into a corner inhabited only by old white males.

Only the antics of Todd Akin add enough humor to keep this election from being a complete snoozer.

[cthulu2016]

9. Nothing strange there. Our electorate is still 70% white and Romney leads among men

Obama leads big among blacks, hispanics and women.

Romney leads big among whites and men.

There is gender overlap with the ethnic votes, of course, complicating the math.

But it's not hard to see how the race could be, given all that, close because the electorate is strongly majority white. 70% in 2008, which saw record minority turn-out, so even with four years of demographic changes it will probably remain 70% in 2012.