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[Cooter]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash5.htm

Sen. John Kerry "has taken big lead," according "to an L.A. Times poll."

But the Times poll that showed Kerry "beating Bush by 7 points" has created a controversy over whether the poll's sample accurately reflects the population as whole, ROLL CALL reports on Tuesday.

"Not counting independents, the Times' results were calculated on a sample made up of 38 percent Democrats and 25 percent Republicans -- a huge and unheard-of margin," ROLL CALL claims.

More evidence that polls are useless.

 

[sprsk]

This is true.

And even if any poll was actually accurate people would argue the source anyway.

 

[Willco]

SWEET JUSTICE. THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR...

 

[Bregor]

What is the proportion of Democrats and Republicans in the population as a whole?

 

[Cooter]

What is the proportion of Democrats and Republicans in the population as a whole?

It's even.

 

[reggieandTFE]

There's actually slightly more registered democrats than republicans, but they vote in fewer numbers.

 

[Ripclawe]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash5.htm



More evidence that polls are useless.

LaTimes showed their colors with the poll numbers for Arnold, where they had cruz bustamante(sp?) up by such a ridiculous number every other polling outfit made fun of them.

This is not a surprise, Mickey Kaus at Slate.com called up the polling director and even she was surprised and unsure about the results.