The Herald's premature evaluation--updated!

Today's Herald cover: worse than it seemed

Dont Quote Me — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:08:10 GMT

Earlier today, I argued that today's Herald cover story--which suggested that the DNC hadn't

Adam, About That Herald Article....

Talking Politics — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:39:11 GMT

Hey Adam: so if Gallup's three-day rolling average lead was to suddenly spike, say, from 1 point

re: The Herald's premature evaluation--updated!

Adam — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:06:17 GMT

The Spock pic was supposed to conjure up the phrase "Highly illogical." (The DJ stuff is superfluous.)

re: The Herald's premature evaluation--updated!

Medfordjared — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:50:27 GMT

If you look at the Gallop tracking, you'll see that Obama consistently under performs over weekends, then gains midweek. Someone noted that this reflects that younger Obamma voters tend not to be home on weekends and are more available weeknights.

In addition, the construct of 'likely voters' is used to define the tracked voters. This demographic is defined as people who voted in the last two presidential elections. There are huge numbers of new voters that will be voting Obama. It would be interesting to see a poll taking into account 'registered voters'.

Also note that as of yesterday, Gallup noted that Obama retook the lead from McCain and that "A better night for Obama in Gallup's Tuesday tracking interviews, however, suggests that a convention bounce could develop."

re: The Herald's premature evaluation--updated!

Joel — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:46:32 GMT

And PS, am I missing something? What the hell does DJ Spock have to do with that item?

re: The Herald's premature evaluation--updated!

Joel — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:45:43 GMT

Obviously today's "OBUMMER" front page, with Chabot's story, was just the Herald's way of shaking off the horrible feeling they had after being nice to Ted K on Tuesday. You and others noted the Herald seemed to have gone a little squishy on Ted; it's in the Herald's DNA to push back immediately in that situation.