Before you guys laugh too much, consider this. Zogby is reaching people who callers do not. Young people of the internet age as opposed to older folks who are more likely to answer the phone in their homes and are more likely to vote for McCain. Could this be the unreached and motivated younger crowd who have reached voting age at a time when they hate current conservative politics? Maybe? Seems like a streach, but Dems have made huge in roads with this group of voters and they could be that 5% or so who tip the election in ways that we have never seen before. Remember, even a state like SC for example, has a huge amount of Democrats, they just don't win the state. Could the cell phone and Facebook crowd that is not being reached by polsters be getting reached by Zogby? An interesting thought.
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isn't a scientific poll. People can sign up for it and there's no randomization. It's a straw vote, not a poll, and it's worse than useless.
I'd have no problem, in theory, with internet polling, as long as it obeyed the laws of polling: random sample, no self-selection, etc. But anyone who's ever opened a statistics textbook knows that John Zogby has produced the worst statistical piece of human excrement since the 1936 Literary Digest poll,
and that would be true even if the election turned out exactly like Zogby's numbers indicate.
