Obama poll numbers in Fresno, CA and Louisville, KY

[pbrower2a]

Obama's favorable/unfavorable rating in Louisville is 42/41.  Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable rating in Louisville is 36/35.

Obama won 56% of the vote in the county where Louisville, Kentucky is located.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=fb3d4e10-81bc-485d-9be1-c5e60623d362

Obama's favorable/unfavorable rating in Fresno, California is 41/39.  Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable rating in Fresno, California is 35/28.

Obama won 50% of the vote in the county where Fresno, California is located.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=cbdc3ca0-7948-4c09-b3c3-0008af50d939

Surprised that Palin would have a higher or the same net favorable rating as Obama in two cities located in counties that he won last November?

SurveyUSA has been fielding some strange, inexplicable poll results -- so strange that they suggest fabrication or distortiion. One set of polls suggests that Obama approval is now as low in Missouri and Virginia as it is in Kentucky, Kansas, and Alabama. That is beyond explanation.

[pbrower2a]

That's quite a serious charge that you are making.

Here's SurveyUSA's track record from the last election:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/images/Wall%20Street%20Chart.jpg

SurveyUSA also pretty much nailed CA-9, VA-gov, and NJ-Gov (unlike Democracy Corps(D) and the NY Times/CBS news, which embarrassed themselves with their NJ polling):

http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2009/11/04/1641/

http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2009/11/04/no-pollster-more-accurate-than-surveyusa-in-nj-governor-contest/

http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2009/11/04/no-pollster-more-accurate-than-surveyusa-in-va-governor-contest/

Yes, it is a serious charge. SurveyUSA may have been accurate enough in 2008, but it seems way off now. I was referring more to some statewide polls not in that batch -- polls that seem to have contradictory patterns such as contradictory correlations between age and support and the unlikely similarity between approval levels in states with very dissimilar political tendencies. How could Obama support be within 1% in Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia?

Another pollster, Strategic Vision, was caught plagiarizing other pollsters, and I can just imagine what happened with some of its employees. I hope that they got jobs elsewhere -- as in the commercial food-service business, segment specializing in low-cost sandwiches.