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imgbitepolitic

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Sat Oct 27, 2012, 09:47 PM Oct 2012

Are Gallup and most other national polls wrong? Matt Barreto says yes. Must read!

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=10642

by Matt Barreto‚ Oct. 25‚ 2012


"In 2010 Gary Segura and I wrote that not much had changed and polls continued to mis-represent the Latino vote. It is now well-known that polls in Nevada had small, unrepresentative and biased samples of Latinos, leading them to entirely miss Harry Reid’s 5-point lead over Sharron Angle. Two weeks ago, Nate Silver wrote at 538 that some polls seem to be continuing the same mistakes and under-counting and mis-counting Latino voters, which he had originally picked up, and wrote about the day after the 2010 midterms. Around the same time some new polls started appearing in states like Nevada and Florida with bizarre data for Latino voters – Obama only had an 8 point lead among Nevada Latinos, and Romney was actually ahead among Latinos in Florida. Really?

No."
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Are Gallup and most other national polls wrong? Matt Barreto says yes. Must read! (Original Post) imgbitepolitic Oct 2012 OP
Just as they had helped Harry Reid get re-elected in 2010, BlueCaliDem Oct 2012 #1
Very good article oswaldactedalone Oct 2012 #2

BlueCaliDem

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1. Just as they had helped Harry Reid get re-elected in 2010,
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 09:59 PM
Oct 2012

the Latino vote is going to help all Democrats in 2012. It appears that the Latino community will save this country from George W. Bush 2.0. Who would have thought that in the 1980's?

Pa' Lante con Obama! Move Forward with Obama!

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