Agreed. As for my point several threads ago, there is unconscious bias, conscious bias and downright misrepresentation (aka fraud). I would place that particular PPP poll in the last category.

Just sayin.

But the last one was about a week ago, to my cell phone, and I just flat out said no.

First, I was pretty busy with work-related issues.

Second, and more importantly, it was going to take 15 minutes plus to get through this one. On my cell phone.

I laughed at the lady when she told me how long it would take, after she followed up with “…was now a good time?”

I replied by asking if she knew that this was a cell number, and remarked that it was never going to be a good time. It was a cell call.

Oh, all very politely, of course. I’m generally not overtly mean with people who are just trying to do their job. (With managers, I’m not nearly as forgiving.)

But.

Y’know? – I pay for my cell minutes during the day.

What the hell is wrong with these morons.

You mention the “uncanny absence of Obama bumper stickers.”

IMO this is another “tell” that indicates something is going on that is not represented (at least not yet) in the polls.

I’ve already made th epoint that by itself it doesn’t mean very much, but when added to other like events that are occurring nationwide it implies that something is afoot.

The uncanny abscence of Obama bumper stickers this year tells anyone with common sense that a party affiliation model is of little or no use in this election.

. . .a big “tell” here is that Obama cannot build any kind of a lead among independent voters. That suggests to me that his advantage is built entirely on Democratic enthusiasm, which right now is above its historical trends and clearly on a post-DNC bump. Nobody in the postwar era has won the presidency by carrying less than 49 percent of independents, and Obama is quite a ways below that mark, even if some polls show him at or above 50 percent nationwide and in the key swing states.

If Jay Cost is correct, then this answers Brit Humes’ question about defying gravity. Obama is not. defying gravity, it is only a “David Copperfield effect” in which he temporarily (and under very limited conditions) appears to be in the lead.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-are-polls-tilted-toward-obama_653067.html