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Subscribe to RSSFitting for this campaign… “A power outage in Cambridge forced the cancellation of a forum tonight in which key advisers to President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney were to talk publicly about the recently completed general election campaign,” the Boston Globe reports.
Taegan Goddard: “However, I attended the off-the-record sessions on Wednesday and Thursday and will have quite a big to report once I'm allowed.”
The New Republic’s Scheiber gets his hands on the Romney campaign’s final poll numbers before the election in six key battleground states, which showed Romney ahead in Colorado and New Hampshire and tied in Iowa. And Scheiber spoke with Romney pollster Neil Newhouse to explain the numbers. “Newhouse and some of his colleagues have said that the biggest flaw in their polling was the failure to predict the demographic composition of the electorate. Broadly speaking, the people who showed up to vote on November 6 were younger and less white than Team Romney anticipated, and far more Democratic as a result. ‘The Colorado Latino vote was extraordinarily challenging,’ Newhouse told me. ‘As it was in Florida.’”
Charlie Cook on the poll the GOP should listen to.
Bloomberg/Business Week’s Josh Green reports on the millions of dollars those overly informal Obama campaign emails raised.
Conservatives are not happy with Stu Stevens.
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Yet the republicans haven't learned a thing. They are still holding the American people hostage to protect the rich.
President Obama won Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, the three whitest states in the country, yet the pollsters and pundits keep saying Romney won the white vote, and the white women's votes. That doesn't sound right to me. (Being a white female, myself.) Me, and all my friends and many relatives voted for Obama.
I think it's more accurate to say Romney won the Southern, conservative, white vote, which Republicans ALWAYS win. I am a white Northeast female and I have less in common with those conservative voters than I do with African Americans across the country, apparently. I think the pollsters and the pundits are missing the whole point by a mile. The Republicans are holding their Southern white voters, but losing everyone else. I find it kind of insulting no one cares the Republicans have lost people like me.
The only ones the republicans are holding is the uneducated Fox and Limbaugh lemmings, their losing everyone else.
Any pollster worth his salt will tell you that the most critical aspect of reliable polling is designing the makeup of the universe to be polled. Not being aware of the makeup of 'likely' voters is a death knell.
Of nearly equal importance is the methodology employed. Apparently, the Republican pollsters were unaware of the prevalence of many voters dropping land line telephones in favor of cellular phones.
One polling firm favored by Republicans, Rassmussen, appears to be the least accurate among all major polling firms yet the Republican party continues to use them for some unknown reason almost exclusively.
When the next election cycle comes around, may I suggest that anyone interested in polling data bookmark Electoralvote.com. This site compiles all major poll data, and some minor data as well, on a national and state by state basis. Their final projection of the recent election outcome was off by just three electoral votes.