CNN says their poll results show the "Democratic nomination" battle is a "virtual tie"

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CNN Poll: Obama losing support

A new national poll suggests the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is a virtual tie.

Forty-six percent of registered Democratic voters questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday support Obama as their party’s nominee and 45 percent back Clinton, a statistical dead heat when taking into account the poll’s 4.5 percent sampling error on that specific question.

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Obama currently leads the New York senator when it comes to pledged delegates, the popular vote, and states won, in the primaries and caucuses held to date.

So if Obama currently leads handily in everything but media polls, where is the "virtual tie" coming from? I guess there is an alternate universe where the media polls are more important than the actual results from the voters. Could it be more obvious that our media is doing anything and everything to keep this race going, obviously to the detriment of our candidate that will be going up against McCain in the fall?

[Zueda]

1. Insane. n/t

[4themind]

2. This reminds me of that simpsons episode where Brockman says

* BROCKMAN: Now, here are some results from our phone-in poll. 95% of the people believe Homer Simpson is guilty. Of course, this is just a television poll, which is not legally-binding, unless Proposition 304 passes, and we all pray it will.

[TexasObserver]

3. Clinton News Network earning its name.

They're selling Hillary hardcore, a virtual marketing arm of her campaign.

They keep using an allegedly sound nationwide sample of Democrats, but they cannot be accurately building their models. They have no way to accurately identify and count the many new voters that are in the Obama column. These polls have shown time and again that they are designed to identify who voted last time, not who will vote this time. They oversample those who voted last time, and undersample new trending voters.

And, they are biased inherently, because they wish to help one candidate. CNN and Fox News simply have no credibility at all when it comes to the Democratic nomination. Both are trying so hard to help Hillary it is almost comical.

[moondust]

4. Undermining democracy 24/7.

Don't say anything or they'll aim that 1st Amendment at you.

[blm]

5. They are pulling the old "LIKELY VOTERS" and registered voters trick - meaning only polling those

who have a longer record of voting.

The media is CREATING a tighter race DELIBERATELY to mislead voters who actually believe Hillary HAS a chance to win.

And Hillary's supporters who know better are doing it because their goal is to make sure that 2012 is open for another Hillary run.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Good thing we don't select our nominees by corporate polls

It's the delegates stupid.

(not you HD : - )))

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Meanwhile, the delegates say it's over.

Imagine that.