RE: A Boost In The Polls For Ron Paul?

This guy makes some interesting points about why Ron Paul's national polls aren't reflecting his obvious popularity.  Ordinarily I'm leery of dismissing polling data.  Remember even Karl Rove claimed his "math" told him the polls were wrong about the 2006 Democratic landslide. 

Rove claimed that the polls "add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House."

"You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math," Rove said. "I'm entitled to 'the' math."

Still, this makes sense.  Thoughts?

Comments

[Buckwheat]

These "scientific" polls only measure name recognition and are close to meaningless at this point. Only a tiny sliver of Americans are even paying attention -- the Iowa Caucus is six months off.

RP's message is spreading quickly, and it's a winning message. That's the important thing.

[Rick Fisk]

His best point is that they are only polling republicans. I've seen enough people online who claim they are democrats and independents who have switched to support Ron, that I don't think these polls will pick up those people.

I also wonder about new registrants. Do they even call them?

Lastly, I noticed in at least one poll that the total number of democrats included were 500 whereas the number of republicans were 342.

So what did the missing 120 or so say?

[Tex MacRae]

Well, there are enough questions about methodology of these early polls to cast doubt on their accuracy. It'll be interesting to see how they change as the primaries get closer. With RP breaking every internet record there is, I can't believe it means nothing, which is what the current polls indicate.

[Tex MacRae]

Hey, Buckwheat, they're still insulting you over at that neocon warmonger blog, Moonbattery.