Comments on: COLEMAN LEADING FRANKEN BY 9 POINTS IN LATEST POLL

By: Barack McCain

Barack McCain — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:45:21 +0000

Wow, its gotten so bad that Michael is now relying on student run polls that the director of the school’s political science deaprtment admitted was flawed. Ouch. Please try to maintain some credibility.

By: Chestnut

Chestnut — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:45:29 +0000

This poll is an outlier.

By: kb

kb — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:27:23 +0000

Aaron, what I said was that the managers of the callers were students. The poll has directors that are members of AAPOR, the national organization for pollsters. They are very reputable. They also reported, if you followed my link, that when correcting for registered voters or for whether or not the respondent voted in 2006, they saw virtually no difference in the results.

By: Poll Watcher

Poll Watcher — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:41:38 +0000

Ha! The Tom Landry Middle School Poll has Coleman up 432%. Get serious…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0000

This poll is managed by students from SCSU. It doesn't make the list of reputable polls. That, and it's way outside every poll in October, including the Republican outlying KSTP/SUSA polls.

By: Patrick Black

Patrick Black — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:19:13 +0000

Haha. That poll is a little funny.

Is there any sense if all the Coleman endorsements are making a difference?

By: Gremlin

Gremlin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:04:28 +0000

From:
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081024/NEWS01/110240070

The poll did not screen for registered voters or eligible voters because of Minnesotaâ€™s same-day voter registration laws, he said.

People who said they didnâ€™t know who they were voting for at this stage are likely not voting, he said.

That’s a novel methodology. Was this some kind of class project?

509 responses, conducted over 8 days. Oh yeah, I’m convinced.

By: Gr8rMn

Gr8rMn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:00:34 +0000

You guys are GREAT. The St. Cloud State Poll is more accurate than any DEM wants to believe, and in Gr8rMN Coleman is ahead. The overall values of those living in outstate are very different than those existing within the mainly DFL metro. Solid family values, and that is also why, on the Iron Range Franken and his cohort No Bama are both behind in polls. PT BARNUM SAID YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT NOT ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME. I GUESS THE DEMS LIKE TO LIVE IN A WORLD OF DREAMS. Nov 4 will show the real opinions of those who live in this state, whether they are socialists or free marketeers and thinkers rather than blinded followers of a “fake messiah”.

By: Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:13:01 +0000

I love how you left out this gem…

â€œI think weâ€™re a little on the low side for Democrats overall,â€ said Stephen Frank, political science professor at St. Cloud State University and the pollâ€™s director.

Whenever the pollster second guesses his own results in the media ANNOUNCING the results, that is never a good sign.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:12 +0000

SCSU poll? Hum. Never heard of it. I wonder who’s behind it.

If the SCSU poll even counted, it’d be 3 out of 12 polls that show Coleman in the lead. The only other two that say that are SUSA/KSTP polls.