NewsDoober
04-13-2008, 01:42 PM
Someone disliked the fact that I posted a year old CNN poll as evidence of McCain’s unpopularity. He cited the CBS/NYT polls. Here is the latest CBS/NYT poll (http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Mar08c-politics.pdf). It is a year later and McCain is still losing.
The CBS News/New York Times poll (http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Mar08c-politics.pdf) has both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton leading John McCain in head-to-head races by five points.
According to the poll, Obama leads McCain 47% to 42%, with Clinton leading McCain 48% to 43%.
As always, it is important to see how the poll’s respondents break down by party — a look which shows that those questioned self-identified 39% Dem, 28% Repub, and 33% independent in the unweighted sample. The weighted sample broke down 40% Dem, 26% Repub, and 34% independent.
The unweighted sample shows an 11-point margin for the Dems, while the weighted sample shows a 14-point margin.
Two ways to judge the accuracy of the poll’s 11-point margin favoring Dem respondents might include some historical perspective of other presidential elections and how the CBS News/New York Times poll did forecasting the last national elections.
In the 27 elections since 1900, four Democratic Party presidential candidates won by more than 10% points: in 1912, Woodrow Wilson won by 14.4% over a split Repub ticket of Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft; in 1932, FDR beat President Hoover by 17.8%; in 1936, President Roosevelt beat Alf Landon by 24.3%; in 1964, President Johnson beat Barry Goldwater by 22.6%.
In the 2006 mid-term elections, when the Dems beat the Repubs by about 7.5% in the aggregate House vote, the last CBS News/New York Times poll before the 2006 mid-terms (http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/20061031_poll.pdf) forecast a Dem margin of victory of 18%, missing by about 10 points. - tne (http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/7834-The-Latest-CBS-NewsNew-York-Times-Poll.html#comments)
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The CBS News/New York Times poll (http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Mar08c-politics.pdf) has both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton leading John McCain in head-to-head races by five points.
According to the poll, Obama leads McCain 47% to 42%, with Clinton leading McCain 48% to 43%.
As always, it is important to see how the poll’s respondents break down by party — a look which shows that those questioned self-identified 39% Dem, 28% Repub, and 33% independent in the unweighted sample. The weighted sample broke down 40% Dem, 26% Repub, and 34% independent.
The unweighted sample shows an 11-point margin for the Dems, while the weighted sample shows a 14-point margin.
Two ways to judge the accuracy of the poll’s 11-point margin favoring Dem respondents might include some historical perspective of other presidential elections and how the CBS News/New York Times poll did forecasting the last national elections.
In the 27 elections since 1900, four Democratic Party presidential candidates won by more than 10% points: in 1912, Woodrow Wilson won by 14.4% over a split Repub ticket of Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft; in 1932, FDR beat President Hoover by 17.8%; in 1936, President Roosevelt beat Alf Landon by 24.3%; in 1964, President Johnson beat Barry Goldwater by 22.6%.
In the 2006 mid-term elections, when the Dems beat the Repubs by about 7.5% in the aggregate House vote, the last CBS News/New York Times poll before the 2006 mid-terms (http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/20061031_poll.pdf) forecast a Dem margin of victory of 18%, missing by about 10 points. - tne (http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/7834-The-Latest-CBS-NewsNew-York-Times-Poll.html#comments)
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