You're right! I'm a fool! Only phone polls are accurate and only land line phone suscribers are eligible to vote in America. This damn internet is nothing more than a series of tubes anyhow.

(Does the fact that this message board is on the net invalidate all the posts here?) Just wondering.

-editted from Zogby-
"Myth 1 -- Polls predict the winners and losers. Actually, a poll is only a snapshot of a moment in time. It can point to trends, but things can change on election day, when a lot of undecided voters make up their minds. We do try to ask "projective questions" – i.e. to see how people will react to situations and messages, but a poll can only measure a fixed moment in time."

It's the trend that this poll highlights that's got me excited. And let us not ignore that a generic Democratic nominee in nearly all these polls is pulling historic highs, near 60%. Senator Clinton has not been able to post much more than a few point lead at any time during this election cylcle and seldom rises above the 50% threshold.

That is a big danger sign for our party. This very point is covered in "Newsweek," in this weeks issue, (page 13).

mike kohr

This thread has morphed from the original point of Clinton's decline in many national polls into a critical dismissal of polling in general and the Zogby poll in particular.

But, to take the bait, I wish to point out if polling did not have value, candidates would nor spend the amount of money and time on them that they do. Polls identify trends at specific moments in time. And the Zogby poll as well as others point to a trend that should concern everyone on this board, Clinton's electability.

Below is a clip from the Zogby website:

Zogby on "Morning Joe"; Interactive Poll on the Money - VIDEO

Penn mischaracterized this latest online Zogby poll as our first interactive survey ever – a bizarre contention, since we have been developing and perfecting our Internet polling methodology for nearly a decade (Zogby Intreractive Methodology), and since Penn’s company has been quietly requesting the results of such polls from Zogby for years. We always comply as part of our pledge to give public Zogby polling results to any and every candidate and campaign that asks for them. What is interesting is that no other campaign has made as many requests for Zogby polling data over the years as Penn has made on behalf of Clinton.

Because Mark Penn is a quality pollster himself, we chalk up his contention that our poll is “meaningless” as a knee–jerk reaction by a campaign under pressure coming down the stretch. Several other polls – Zogby surveys and others – have shown her national lead and her leads in early–voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire have shrunk. This is not unusual. These presidential contests usually tighten as the primaries and caucuses approach.

Fritz Wenzel
Director of Communications
Zogby International

For those that have been hoodwinked into thinking that the Zogby poll is a "flash" internet poll that can be "freeped" I suggest you register to take the poll. They are very involved and time consuming.

to register go to: http://interactive.zogby.com/pollregistration/registration/index.cfm?ref...
mike kohr