Last night, I noted how NBC News was swimming against historical trends in pushing a poll with a deeply partisan skew in its sample. The poll, produced in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal, had a D+11 sample, i.e. 46% of the sample identified as Democrat, 35% identified as Republican. In 2008, a very big year for Democrats, the electorate was D+7, 39% Democrat, 32% Republican. In fact, you have to go back nearly thirty years to find an election with such a partisan skew.
This morning, on MSNBC's Morning Joe, NBC political director Chuck Todd admitted their poll had a skewed sample (around 3:50 mark) and stated that, if this poll were weighted similarly to their last poll, the race would have been unchanged, instead of Obama extending his lead over Romney to 6 points. (Of course, this invites the question as to why they didn't use the same weighting in this sample.)
TONY DIGIROLAMO- THE SAMPLE WAS SKEWED AND THE GOP CANDIDATE IS SCREWED! IT'S BEEN DONE FOR YEARS!
PARDON ME IS THIS NEWS? AH YEAH... THEY'VE BEEN OUTED.
WE'VE BEEN IN ELECTION POLLING HELL FOR YEARS!
HEY, LEANING FORWARD... TOWARD OBAMA
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