GameOver22 said:
theprof00 said:
"Some of the overall Republican bias in the polls this year may reflect the fact that Mr. Obama made gains in the closing days of the campaign, for reasons such as Hurricane Sandy, and that this occurred too late to be captured by some polls. In the FiveThirtyEight “now-cast,” Mr. Obama went from being 1.5 percentage points ahead in the popular vote on Oct. 25 to 2.5 percentage points ahead by Election Day itself, close to his actual figure.
Nonetheless, polls conducted over the final three weeks of the campaign had a two-point Republican bias overall, probably more than can be explained by the late shift alone. In addition, likely voter polls were slightly more Republican-leaning than the actual results in many races in 2010."
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Key word....some. There are plenty of polls conducted over the final week and the final days. Just look at the data. RealClearPolitics
Edit: To get an even better idea of all the polls conducted over the final days Polltracker
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Yep... it's funny. People like to repeat that saying their are three kinds of lies, lies, damned lies and statistics...
the truth is, statistics don't like. It's just most people don't understand the statistics and don't really understand what's being said.
It would be really worth it to replace a lot of Alegebra and Geometry in jr highschools and highschool with math logic and statistics classes. Much more applicable day to day.
