Zogby America phone poll says Bush up 3, w or w/o Nader

[Sam Spade]

Some more weekend polling.  Results are Bush 47, Kerry 44 head to head, Bush 46, Kerry 43, Nader 1.4, Badnarik 1.2, Petrouka 0.1, with all those other parties included.

These results compare similarly with results done a week ago, showing Bush up 2 in head to head and up 4 in the three-way.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=867

[zorkpolitics]

Perhaps the most interesting trend in his last three polls is the fall of Nader and rise of Badnarik.  I wonder if the trends will continue?  Will Badnarik end up with the most third party votes?

                               Sep 17-19  Sep 8-9   Aug30-Sept2
Independent – Nader   1.4       2.4                  3.0

Libertarian - Badnarik       1.2          0.9             0.3

[A18]

I think Badnarik will get more votes than Nader.

[agcatter]

17th thru 19th???

Why the hell did he choose to poll on a weekend???

That's insane.  Did he poll this morning.  Wouldn't that miss those at church?  I don't get this.

[The Vorlon]

17th thru 19th???

Why the hell did he choose to poll on a weekend???

That's insane.  Did he poll this morning.  Wouldn't that miss those at church?  I don't get this.

Yes

8 of his last 14 polls have been wrong by more than 6%

'nuff said

[agcatter]

Seriously, he's gotten in the habit of polling on weekends.  Church, sporting events, weekend trips....what the hell?

[Reds4]

I'm no polling professional, but I would certainly think Sunday's are generally not a good polling day for Republicans. I really have no idea why Zogby would choose Friday, Sat, and Sun, makes no sense to me.

[Sam Spade]

I think Zogby is doing what he did at the conventions, release his poll before everyone else's so that he gets the top line first.   Concurrently with that, I believe a number of national polls will be released this week.

In the post-convention polls, this meant his polls weren't really post-convention polls, but no one cared about this.

Who knows what these polls are?  I take them with a certain bit of credibility because they are Zogby national polls and they have a good record in Presidential races, but if he continues his record since the 2000 election in this election, he deserves to be as maligned as Rasmussen.

[MODU]

Which planet was Zogby calling from?