digg

Join DiggAbout

Introducing Digg Dialogg!
Check out the first Digg Dialogg with Nancy Pelosi. More guests to be announced soon!

See the original image at angus-reid.com

First presidential poll to include Cynthia McKinney

angus-reid.com — This is a Global Monitor poll, published by Angus Reid. In the poll with Obama, McCain, Barr, Nader and McKinney, Obama gets 46%, McCain 42%, Nader 6%, Barr 3% and McKinney 1%.

Bury
show profanity settings
expand all
  • tcbishop12, on 08/08/2008, -4/+7Respectfully, McKinney is irrelevant. Sen. Barack Obama is still the big frontrunner in the 2008 United States presidential race, according to this poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN

    FTA: 51 per cent of respondents would vote for the Illinois senator in this year’s ballot, while 44 per cent would back Arizona senator John McCain. Support for Obama increased by one point since June, while backing for McCain fell by the same margin.

  • hesco, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1Given the limited view of most polls towards their definition of 'likely voters', I'd suggest it is premature to write off the potential for the Green Party's McKinney-Clemente ticket to reach new voters in the 2008 election cycle. Cynthia McKinney has been challenging voters to go places we've never gone before, to do things we've never done before so we can have public policy results we've never enjoyed before. If pollsters could do the same, I suspect you'd see a whole different picture of the actual support these respective candidates enjoy among the eligible electorate. If we had meaningful fairness with respect to the the media's use of our airwaves and the cable / internet capacity built with public tax dollars, that is, if folks actually knew the manner in which these candidates' policy commitments line up with their own values and aspirations, a different picture altogether could be possible.
    • djsilverfish, on 08/10/2008, -0/+0Accurate polling would require the inclusion of all candidates. Failure to include the 6 candiates that will be on the ballot in a majority of the states excludes important variables that distort the poll result. The only justification for restricting the polling to the two leading candidates is portraying the Rep/Dem contest as a horserace. That extremely limited style of coverage is boring the nation to death and undermining civil society.
  •  

    Login or register to add a comment

    Create a new account or login to join in the conversation on Digg. You'll also be able to Digg stories to help promote things you like.


© Digg Inc. 2008 — Content posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain.
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.