In order to show Bush ahead, Gallup changed their polling sample from a 7% GOP bias in their last poll (which showed Bush ahead of Kerry by 11%) to a whopping 12% skew in favor of Republican voters in their new poll! Keep in mind – the actual figures in 2000 for voter ID was 39% Democrat, 34% Republican. Yet Gallup’s new poll has 43% Republicans in the sample, only 31% Democrat. Here is the breakdown of this indefensible Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll.
Keep in mind, if you re-balance the party ID of these people sampled by Gallup to 2000 levels (“likely voters”) then Kerry is ahead by even farther than the margin of error.
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