The AP is running the following headline on the internets:
AP PRESIDENTIAL POLL: ALL EVEN IN THE HOMESTRETCH
Now I spend way too much time on DailyKos, so I know there hasn’t been any new release of polling numbers which shows Obama and McCain running even, so that headline really drew me in. To justify it, the article says this about results from their latest AP-GfK poll
(After the jump)
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord.
Hmm, I’m thinking, what have we missed here that the race has tightened up so? But then the article goes on to mention Pew, WAPO/ABC and NBC/WSJ polls, all of which have Obama up by at least 9 points.
And, reading further I see this:
The AP-GfK survey included interviews with a large sample of adults including 800 deemed likely to vote. Among all 1,101 adults interviewed, the survey showed Obama ahead 47 percent to 37 percent. He was up by five points among registered voters.
(emphasis mine)
So how in the world does this add up to "even"?
The article had a bunch of other stats by group, which I am going to look into when I get home from work, but I wanted to get this out there. The sooner a majority of papers drops AP the better. They need to suffer at the bottom line for their shoddy reporting. I have just banished them from my Yahoo home page.
Here is the link if you want to get mad:
http://news.yahoo.com/...
And they just made the title a little less inflammatory, but the article is the same.