Could the Polling Data Be Wrong?

Written by: Alan Willis on Nov 3, 2008 3:37 PM EST

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

Recently, the following claim was made by a reputable news source (the Daily Mail of Durban, South Africa):

Facing almost universally bad news in opinion polls, McCain's campaign hopes for an upset that would rank as one of the most dramatic eleventh-hour turnarounds in American political history.

Such an outcome would cast deep doubts over the methodology of pollsters and expose much of the US journalistic establishment to ridicule.

What it should do-if this were to happen--is to open widespread investigations into voter fraud and voting machine problems... not to ridicule well established, scientifically verifiable polling methods and data.

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