Limbaugh Accuses Gallup of Counting Too Many Blacks in Polls on Obama

[Generic Other]

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh today accused Gallup of counting too many blacks in its tracking polls on President Obama's approval ratings in order to keep him above the 50 percent mark while several other polls have shown him slipping below that."Gallup has him just teetering on the little teeter-totter at 50% and they're doing everything they can -- they're upping the sample to black Americans -- to keep him up at 50% in the Gallup poll," Limbaugh said on today's broadcast.

Limbaugh did not give any details about how he arrived at his conclusion about Gallup's methodology in the transcript of the show available on his website.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/19/limbaugh-accuses-gallup-of-counting-too-many-blacks-in-polls-on/


I guess gasbag is familiar with the way this org skewed polls for Bush and the GOP and is mad they aren't doing it still.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Gallup is really sloppy in how they clean their data sample. By party or whatever.

And it depends on what kind of sample you use: residents/registered voters/likely voters, etc.

In most elections, blacks comprise just under their 13% of the population as registered voters. A lot don't register.

Then their turnout can be significantly lower than their 13% of the population and even lower for turnout estimates.

It's a minefield. Especially with lazy Gallup.

[Number23]

Black people just handed him his ass on the whole NFL thing and he's STILL coming after us??

He'll probably keep this up until some brother clocks him so then he can scream "see!! I wuz right all along about those people!!"

[Generic Other]

3. Calling Kanye West?

Rushbag doesn't like black people!!

[firedupdem]

4. +1

fuck that ignorant asshole. I just quit working for gallup part time, and I can count the # of black people I spoke to on one hand.

[ConnorMarc]

9. Hopefully It Will Be That Same Barber That

Knocked out Suge Knight with one punch in Cali.

That would be Soooweeeeeeet!!!

LOL!!!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Limbaugh did not give any details about how he arrived at his conclusion

So what else is new?

[HopeHoops]

5. Well, in the Constitution, they were only 2/3 of a person.

Rush doesn't even consider them as people, so any count is too many.

I think we should exclude lard-ass drugged-out morons.

[Generic Other]

7. SNAP!!!

You pegged him Hope!

[Orrex]

6. Maybe he'd be happier if they each only counted as 3/5 of a white respondent.

[Arkana]

8. Um, Rush, you DO remember why ESPN shitcanned you, right?

[Bitwit1234]

10. Let me get this straight

you should only poll old white republican men. That way you get the results that limbaugh wants.