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by Slightly less anonymous on November 21st, 2009
Um, that's not what the poll says. Did you read the poll? That's not even what the article says:
"Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN stole it for him, as few Democrats or independents buy into that line of thinking.
The organization is generally unpopular though, with only 11% of voters viewing it favorably to 53% with an unfavorable opinion and 36% without one."
Basically, according to THIS poll, 53% of Americans have an unfavourable opinion of Acorn and 26% of Americans think ACORN stole the election for Obama.
It's not 53% of Republicans, it's of people polled, and the pol includes people of all political persuasions. If you look at the crosstabs, yes, Republicans polled created a large part, the majority of this percentage, but you didn't look at the poll, or the crosstabs, or even read the article correctly.
And, people can believe anything, and they do. You shouldn't be so surprised by now, but I suppose that is a good thing, it means you're not so jaded.
Anyway, about the poll, according to the PPP, they "conducted a national survey of 1,066 registered voters from November 13 to 15th.
The survey’s margin of error is +/-3.0%."
What's really interesting is to look at the crosstabs for ACORN favourability and "stole the election" and see opinions across ideology, political party, race, age, gender, region--that tells a lot more then the end number does. It tells you what people, specifically what people think a certain way, and when you find out what groups, you can ask why they are inclined to think a certain way. Why people in certain age groups or regions tend to voice similar opinions, even though they have different ideological and political and religious stances.
And the, "he won by 9.5 million votes!" thing...take a look at the section of the polling data where the ask people who they voted for in the last election. That should give you a good hoot.
by Slightly less anonymous on November 20th, 2009
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"The Republican base is with him though. PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately. Clearly the ACORN card really is an effective one to play with the voters who will decide whether Hoffman gets to be the Republican nominee in a possible repeat bid in 2010." http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/11/acorn.html
by Rude Bear Ready for Winter on November 21st, 2009
Got it...went back to the crosstabs--52% of the Republicans surveyed thought that ACORN stole the election. Which is 52% of a about 352 people. What's really interesting, reading through all the crosstabs more carefully this time, is that 52% of Republicans surveyed think the election was stolen, but only 48% of Conservatives, and only 49% of McCain voters.
Sorry about that. I skimmed the article and focused more on the actual poll data. The 52, 53 number was really close, and I assumed you were referring to the overall results. Ooops! Anyway, yes, according to this survey of this people at this time, yeah. But in terms of the Republican base being able to push the issue for long, I wouldn't count on it.
by Slightly less anonymous on November 21st, 2009