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9 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘Gallup’

Let Obama be Obama

By Denis Campbell • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: Features
 
By Denis Campbell
37 Days. I’ve watched folks worry about the state of Obama’s campaign. He has suffered withering criticism and attacks for 20-months from the right and a Greek chorus of Cassandras on the left telling him to be more aggressive and take the fight more strongly to John McCain. 
11 times in the debate he [...]


What If It’s Not As Close As (The Media Wants) You (to) Think?

By Denis Campbell • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
The infamous Daily Tracking Polls the media treat as Gospel, are missing several chapters. From Gallup to Zogby these polls are of ‘likely’ voters in the upcoming election. A ‘likely’ voter is defined as someone having voted in the last two Presidential elections.
That means the youngest possible poll participant voted in his/her first election in [...]


$69,100 From Swift Boat Friends

By Denis Campbell • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics
It has been a silly-season weekend where Senator McCain and poor, sloppy national reporting made a non flip-flop from Barack Obama the weekend lead attack and pushed Senator McCain’s own acceptance of $69,100 in funds from the same Swift Boat group that smeared John Kerry in 2004 and which he denounced disappear from the headlines. [...]