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Quoted: here's more on the pew poll from ambrose over at FR:
"Here's the interesting thing... PEW did two rounds of polling. First round was 54 to 38 W. Second round was 46 to 46 tie. PEW acknowledges they changed the questions in the second round., So if they skewed the second round to get the result they wanted, the first round corroborates Gallup..."
btw,the second round was the one done over the weekend ...that skews it to democrats.
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Explain to me how polling on the weekends skews it to Democrats???
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A higher % of democrats are home over the weekend purely due to demographics. Republicans tend to have families, etc, so they spend their weekends out with the kids, golfing, shopping, whatever.
There's also the belief that weekday AM polling gets more democrats (due to reaching the unemployed - no, really, that's one of the factors). Also reach more stay-at-home moms, but those could also be a % of republican moms, but those tend not to have time to take polls because of kids, also more likely to have caller id / call screening.