August 29, 2003

Weasel Polling Fails

Seems the pollsters aren't having an easy time of nailing down the Recall election. Good.

Recall pollsters on steep learning curve
Compressed schedule, long ballot produce wild fluctuation

It's the year of living dangerously for pollsters who venture into the California recall race.

According to a Los Angeles Times poll last week, Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante led Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger 35 percent to 22 percent in the California gubernatorial recall race.

Over at KABC-TV, an ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, one stat showed actor Schwarzenegger leading Bustamante, 51 percent to 17 percent. And a Field Poll said it was Bustamante vs. Schwarzenegger in a near dead-heat, 25 percent to 22 percent.

Then when it came to deciding on whether to oust Gov. Gray Davis, the Times said 50 percent of the voters would eject the current governor. KABC said, it's more like 65 percent.

What in name of Gallup is going on here?

"Everything is speeded up," said Peyton Craighill, program director of the Pew Research Center, which hasn't conducted a recall poll. "There's so much movement going on."

Translation: We can't cook it. Given their majority the Dems must be very, very nervous. Soon they will have no choice but to roll out their secret weapon the mother of all campaigners, the Dem bunker buster: BIG BUBBA.

It's going to be so much fun as Clinton sucks the air out of the campaign. Davis will be totally eclipsed by Clinton's rock star wattage. Let's hope Senator Ample Arse joins in...Arnold needs all the help he can get to turn out the GOP base.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by feste at August 29, 2003 08:46 PM | TrackBack
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