Posted by: Dale Franks on Saturday, February 02, 2008 Super Tuesday is getting closer, and by Tuesday night, we may have a very good idea of who the nominees for the respective parties will be. Or not. In any event, both Rasmussen and Gallup are conducting daily tracking polls for both nominations, and, with time running short, here is how they look. Each poll result shown below is based on a running average of the latest few poll results, to smooth out the variations. Starting with the Republican race, Gallup shows the following results:
This is an interesting variation in the two polls, and, of course, as to which one is right I have no idea. It's interesting that the Rasmussen poll shows a lot more movement towards Romney than the Gallup poll does, because the Rasmussen poll uses a 4-day moving average for each day, vice Gallup's 3-day moving average. I'd expect the Gallup poll to show movement more quickly than Rasmussen for that reason alone. Clearly, the two companies are talking to very different populations with this magnitude of variation in the results. With the poll results being so varied however, they're pretty much useless for predictive purposes. Personally, I'd expect to see the results that Rasmussen shows. Since Florida, all of the major talk radio figures—Rush, Laura Ingraham, Michael Graham, Michael Reagan, et al.—have been coming out for Romney, and expressing disdain for McCain. I'd expect that focus on McCain's negative points to have an effect on the average Republican voter. So, Gallup's huge McCain bump seems kind of counter-intuitive to me. Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Gallup reports the following results:
While all this is interesting, however, it ultimately means nothing, since fully 1/3 of the electorate for both parties still haven't made a final decision on who to vote for. this is liable to make the actual elections themselves much more fluid on Tuesday. But, both polls indicate that the nomination is still Hillary Clinton's to lose. |
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