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UNH Poll: Seriously, Andy?

by: Laura Clawson

Thu Sep 25, 2008 at 12:26:23 PM EDT


Dean already highlighted that the latest UNH poll was apparently done in

Faux Hampshire, the land of 7% more Republicans than New Hampshire.

There are a couple other numbers I want to draw your attention to there.

252
6.2%

271
6%

That's the sample size and margin of error for the NH-01 and NH-02 polls.

I am agape and aghast that any pollster who even pretends to care about quality of information or even, cravenly, their own reputation would release polls with numbers like that. That's just ridiculous.

Wow. *wanders off muttering in disbelief*

Laura Clawson :: UNH Poll: Seriously, Andy?
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It's hard to even analyze the polls. (0.00 / 0)
The press release from UNH has numbers that don't add up: e.g., the NH-01 sample is listed as  59D, 67R, 98U, and 10 Not registered - but that is then summed to 235 instead of the correct 234.

And the total sample for NH-01 plus NH-02 is listed as 505 (503 if you add them up yourself). But the statewide polling for President claims a sample of 522. Where did the other 19 voters go?


An undisclosed location (n/t) (4.00 / 1)


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It would be a full-time job (0.00 / 0)
to document everything hinky in UNH state polls.

(They do do a better job for the presidential primary, which boosts their reputation the rest of the time.)


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Thanks (4.00 / 1)
I just wish our state news orgs would pick up on these facts too instead of just reporting the toplines.  I appreciate you pulling out these numbers to highlight the significance of them.

6.2% MoE???  You could drive a truck through that and you wouldn't even have to pull in the mirrors.



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