Breaking on CNN... Ohio is now tied!!!

[aaaaaa5a]

Here are the last 6 polls out of Ohio.



Time Magazine-Obama+5

Public Policy Polling-Obama+4
CNN-Obama +4.................................................... (Poll margin of error 3.5)

ARG-Obama+2

Purple Strategies –Obama+2

Gravis Marketing-Obama+1


All of these polls were completed AFTER the 49-49 Ohio poll which was released today but completed last week prior to the 3rd debate. Although that didn't stop "Meet The Press" from treating it like it was breaking news this morning.


Yup, it looks like a tie to me. Clearly Romney has momentum!





The image above is downright laughable!








Yes... Ohio is definitely tied. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!

[pkdu]

1. Yep , and bigger the pic , bigger the a$$hole. Nt

[spanone]

2. i'm surprised cnn hasn't called it for romney and is filling in the cabinet possibilities

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. The GOP has never been good at math!

[Blue Owl]

4. Desperation, thy name is Ohio

n/t

[Zalatix]

37. Not Ohio, but rather CNN.

[MFM008]

5. the bigger the picture the MORE true it is....

[mshasta]

6. ohio was given to Obama like 2 months ago

....member?

[Cali_Democrat]

7. This is so pathetic

If they're using the margin of error when quoting a poll, they could have easily said Obama is up 7+

Of course they would never say that because they're thoroughly committed to pumping up Romney as much as they can.

The media has become a joke.

[laundry_queen]

36. It's a joke alright. A really shitty one. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

8. The Koch brothers really paid them well. n/t

[LIBertea]

9. MSM, tie this!!!

on MSM failures

[David Zephyr]

10. CNN's ratings are so bad, they are playing sexy to Fox's audience.

I expect CNN to really unfurl it's Romney freak flag in the next days even more.

[Deep13]

11. I predict either Obama or the President will carry Ohio.

[onecent]

19. lol...have to laugh....n/t

[rightsideout]

12. 50 to 46 is a tie?

Only on the Conservative News Network

[aaaaaa5a]

15. The spread in the polls was 4. The margin of error in the poll was 3.5!

It was dishonest all the way around. And FACTUALLY WRONG. I wish someone would introduce me the liberal bias the media is suppose to have.

[krawhitham]

29. MoE of 3.5 can cause a 7 point swing

[Posteritatis]

22. Blitzer's called 60/40 a tie before. (nt)

[Fumesucker]

23. To be fair...

Blitzer knows what a real landslide looks like

[aaaaaa5a]

25. That Jeopardy contest looks "TIED" to me! nt

[Jack Rabbit]

34. They learned to count from Katherine Harris

!!

[RichGirl]

13. After the election....

Can we all just PLEASE boycott CNN!! Forever!! They aren't a news network...they are a corporation and like every other corporation all they care about is $$$$$$!

[tibbiit]

17. I turned off all cable news except The Daily show and Colbert report

April 9th 2002. CNN was the reason. It was the day the Saddam statue came down. CNN showed it as a big crowd of Iraqi's. (camera angles) BUT on BBC News they showed the real crowd! (about 30 people) by showing the scene from a distance. (our tanks not iraqi's pulled down the statue)
Now we have had the incident of Tweetie and Big Ed flipping the fuck out over the first debate, turning it into the Dean Scream or Gore sighs. (OUR SIDE did that to our President)

Rachel is great but you can see her on you tube.

TURN OFF THAT SHIT people. You will be happier and they may lose their jobs if enough people turn them off. The news media as well as the Republican party are TRAITORS to America!
tib

[aaaaaa5a]

14. With the CNN picture even the chyron is wrong.

The chyron says the poll is within the margin of error. But that is not true. The spread was 4. The margin of error in the polls was 3.5%.



What a joke!

[BlueToTheBone]

16. 4pt margin could be Obama 54 Rmoney 42 n/t

[doc03]

18. Don't do any happy dance about Ohio, it is not over

yet. Just saying I don't trust those numbers.

[reformist2]

21. The standard error of all six polls combined is only +/- 1.5 points. So Ohio isn't really a toss-up.

In other words, the chance that all six polls are wrong in giving Obama the lead is quite small, probably less than 10%.

[aaaaaa5a]

24. Nate Silver agrees with you.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

[reformist2]

27. Nate had the foresight to apply statistics to multiple polls taken at the same time...

..and what happens is that the overall error for each poll (lets say +/- 3.5 points) gets reduced the more polls you have and you combine them. With six polls, the 3.5 point margin of error for each poll drops to just 1.5 points when taken together. And so even if you can't get statistically significant information out of any one poll, if they all agree with each other, you may be able to get statistically significant information out of all the polls taken together.

And that's what the righties (and the horse-race obsessed msm) can't stand!

[aaaaaa5a]

28. Stop doing that "logic, math, science stuff"...... you liberal!

Don't be bringing your "intelligent, intellectual, educated" ways around here!

[undeterred]

26. Up by 12 - Braxton Miller Leads No. 9 Buckeyes Past Penn State 35-23

[heppcatt]

30. The newz is like a crappy reality show...

Just remember they want to keep the drama hyped until election day.

[tavernier]

32. exactly.

[Hutzpa]

31. Based on my understanding from UK progressive website

it is easier to see why MSM call a 4 - 5 points difference a tie, it is the mental preparation to explain the steal considering a candidate need a 10 points spread protection.

[Motown_Johnny]

33. I know it is just bull shit so they have a race to report on, but.....

it is a close race and sending the message to Ohio voters that it is important to get out and make sure their vote counts works in our favor.

If they were reporting that Obama was going to win Ohio then some people might not be as motivated to get to the polls.


At this point I don't really care about the spin as long as they report the polling numbers accurately. People can either figure it out for themselves of buy into the meme. That is up to them.

[Motown_Johnny]

35. Kicking, since it is the only legitimate CNN thread up right now.