re: #55 Obdicut

I’m not sure you really understand this polling thing.

FIrst of all, the numbers you put up for the D/R/I divide don’t add up. They consistently have more I than D. Can you please cite where you’re getting your number from?

Second of all, if this is the result that Pew got, than this is the result they got. It would be ‘wrong’ for them to adjust the polls because it’s an outlier. If you can point to a problem in their methodology, that’s fine— and there is definitely a big discrepancy between R and D affiliation shown in this poll— but to say the poll is wrong because of its results is to not understand what a poll is. A poll isn’t right or wrong, a poll is a collection of data from questions people have answered.

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