So, real polls show Crist in the lead, and garbage polls show Scott in the lead. And this race is characterized as a tossup?
I can see these political forecasting meetings now:
"Well, the pros are showing that Charlie Crist is going to defeat Scott, but the idiots who don't know what they're doing are all showing a Rick Scott lead--I don't know who to believe!"
The race is a tossup because the majority of the polling has the race with either a tie or slight Crist lead. It's worth noting that this particular poll was for a left-leaning group.
At the end of the day, the race slightly leans Crist, but he doesn't really have a persistent lead outside of the margin of error to call it anything other than a tossup.
So then Begich is ahead by 10 because that was done by a right-leaning group.
I didn't know that I was stating anything other than fact there. Putting bias out there is important for discussion. Wasn't my conclusion that Crist leads?
Alaska is a different animal all together and irrelevant for this discussion.
My point was the fact that this is by a "left leaning group" means nothing. A "left leaning group" also showed Romney ahead by 20 points in Florida in 2012.
