And guess what, Obama STILL led. Haha! This is one of the greatest things I've seen this campaign. This sort of not just shutting down, but doing so dismissively, with contempt of conservative BULLSHIT is the something I'd like to see more of.
Think of Biden in the VP debate. That's the spirit in which I see this.
Summary: So a recent NBC/Marist poll had Obama up by 6 points, but it was a D+9 sample. The poll 'coordinators' decided to preempt the "Party ID~!" howls from the right (they came). It wasn't announced, but in their release of the poll, they had a section there in which they presented a 'hypothetical' of what their poll would look like if the Democrat sample was arbitrarily halved. Obama still lead in Ohio by three.
Via TPM: (my emphasis)
So as part of a story online about the polls on Saturday, NBC News senior political editor Mark Murray included a section essentially imagining if the findings of his organization’s own poll were altered in a way that showed the Democratic sample in Ohio cut in half. In that case, Murray wrote, Obama’s lead would shrink to three points.
In an email to TPM late Saturday, Murray explained his reasoning behind it.
“We anticipated that there would be criticism of a D+9 sample, and asked our pollsters to assume — as an exercise — what the race would be simply if you halved that Democratic Party ID advantage,” Murray wrote. “We decided to publish that information in my story (towards the end, mind you). But make no mistake: The numbers are the numbers, and we stand by them.”
Criticizing pollsters for allegedly oversampling Democrats has become a cottage industry on the right. Over at National Review Online, Josh Jordan on Saturday referred to Marist’s polling as an “in-kind contribution to Obama.”
On the party ID advantage, he wrote: “Essentially Marist is finding that Democrats are not only going to match their turnout advantage from 2008, but they are actually going to almost double it. That lines up well with Romney drawing 30,000 to a rally in Ohio while Obama pulled just a fraction for his rallies. Or not.”
By the way, notice that "30,000" to a rally figure? The scary thing is that this kind of reality detachment is not from the freepers. Its' from their mainstream guys at the National Review and Hotair.