TheGreatGatsby
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The very respected Gallup was not wrong. They were just the one polling company that hadn't been bought off. Of course, their results didn't match the ballot stuff activities of the Obama regime.
In 2012, many national polls underestimated President Barack Obama’s standing leading up to election, but Gallup’s failure was especially visible because the Obama campaign had pushed back publicly against Gallup’s surveys. When Gallup, in mid-October of that year, released a poll showing Obama and Mitt Romney tied in the swing states, the Obama campaign — led by Joel Benenson, Obama's lead pollster — went so far as to question Gallup's methodology in a public memorandum.
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By Nick Gass
Gallup’s final survey showed Romney leading Obama by 1 point — 4.9 points off from the final result, in which Obama prevailed by 3.9 points. It also misidentified the winner. That led to a lengthy and expensive effort by Gallup to retool its methodology, a process the pollster described back in 2013 as aimed at the next presidential election.
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The very respected Gallup was not wrong. They were just the one polling company that hadn't been bought off. Of course, their results didn't match the ballot stuff activities of the Obama regime.