Cale Ramaker's Blog

The media is trying to sway your vote as usual. I don't pay any attention to what the media says. I listen to the facts but will admit it is fun to hear what the media puts their spin on almost everything political.

Polls - who cares?

Even what seemed like perhaps one of the most reliable polls - exit polls - stop working in 2000.

Sensiblejoe post deleted due to it being so udderly stupid and off-base.

Polls changed daily so how is this stable news?

If you dont stand for something means that you will fall for ANYTHING!!

--Martin Luther King Jr.

It's all about where they take the polls. I think that even national polls are skewed because in general, especially with politics, the region will have a political leaning that will affect the results. That is what I think happened here, taking a poll in predominantly democratic Orange County (Los Angeles CA) will get you a 15% lead for Obama.

I am still not voting, I think they are both the wrong men for the job. So in light of that, I refuse to comment on either of their political leanings.

Why do you media professionals keep paying for these polls? The polls were wrong in the 2000 election; the polls were wrong in the 2004 election; chances are they'll be wrong in the 2008 election.

First of all, unless they are sampling 30 million people (10% of the population), they're meaningless as a means of predicting anything other than the time of day the poll was conducted. Second, the poll questions are generally skewed to produce a desired response to the question, which -- essentially -- is no poll at all.

Save your companies' money .... forget the polls and those who produce them. If you ask 100 people in Central Florida who they're going to vote for in the next race for governor, know what your poll tells you? Only who THOSE TEN PEOPLE are going to vote for ... that's all, nothing else.