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07-07-2008, 11:01 PM | #31 |
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Re: woman sings "black national anthem" instead of star spangled banner.
Not a great way to make a point....BTW what is your point.
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07-08-2008, 04:08 PM | #32 | |
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07-08-2008, 04:20 PM | #33 | |
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Same reason you see more commercials for beer and Ford Mustangs during football games than you do during Entertainment Tonight.
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07-08-2008, 04:44 PM | #34 |
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Re: woman sings "black national anthem" instead of star spangled banner.
Hmm...I don't know about that. Anyway, not too long ago I saw a poll that said Obama is doing poorly among suburban "white" women. Why is such a poll even necessary?
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07-08-2008, 04:53 PM | #35 |
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Re: woman sings "black national anthem" instead of star spangled banner.
For campaign strategy.
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07-08-2008, 04:54 PM | #36 |
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Re: woman sings "black national anthem" instead of star spangled banner.
To give former sociology majors (like myself) a job after college.
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07-08-2008, 05:03 PM | #37 |
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Re: woman sings "black national anthem" instead of star spangled banner.
But Schneed some independent group polled a total of 1,000 women and the media, namely MSNBC, took off and ran with the results as if it had some legitimacy.
What's the real value in polling 1,000 women from the burbs and drawing some conclusion about the larger electorate? None. |
07-08-2008, 05:06 PM | #38 | |
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07-08-2008, 05:11 PM | #39 | |
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07-08-2008, 05:14 PM | #40 | |
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You can also use these polls to examine historical data. Historically, there has been a very strong correlation between the candidate picked by certain demographic groups and the winning candidate. If you establish that historical correlation, you essentially establish that demographic as a swing vote. Polling that group can then be a helpful barometer for the upcoming election, provided you put the proper context around it.
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07-08-2008, 05:15 PM | #41 |
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Re: woman sings "black national anthem" instead of star spangled banner.
I can explain the statistics and math to you if you really want, but essentially, any poll of 1000 people - if sampled correctly and in an appropriately random fashion - is a more than adequate sample size to gauge the voting tendencies for an entire demographic.
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07-08-2008, 05:31 PM | #42 | |
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Even if you were only concerned about women who live with their spouse, you're still talking about a group of more than 59 million people.
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07-08-2008, 05:38 PM | #43 | |
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07-08-2008, 05:38 PM | #44 | |
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07-08-2008, 05:41 PM | #45 | |
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But the bigger problem is they tend to push the notion that the nation is divided, as you say, because it fuels an "us vs them" mindset amongst the viewers. And that can be riveting, so they sell newspapers and ad space. I think I'm on the same page as you. There are a ton of redeeming uses for breaking polls down by demographic. Unfortunately the media misses almost all of them.
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