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WSJ/NBC/MySpace Poll Finds New Voters Break 2-to-1 For Obama

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Age, Barack, McCain, Polls

This poll seems like a pretty big deal, because if as many voters come to the polls as is expected, Obama wins big.
MSNBC has more analysis…

According to the survey, new and lapsed voters (those who didn’t vote in 2004) back Obama over McCain by a 2-to-1 margin, 61%-30%.

If you take the Bush (62 million) and [...]

October 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

SurveyUSA: Obama Leads By 4 In Iowa

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Age, Barack, Democrats, Gender, Iowa, McCain, Polls, Republicans

Obama – 49%
McCain – 45%
Another key swing state poll shows it up for grabs.
Here are some gender breakdowns…
Gender – Male
McCain – 56%
Obama – 39%
Gender – Female
Obama – 59%
McCain – 34%
As we can see, Obama and McCain are taking women and men by fairly large margins, but McCain has 8 more points to make up among [...]

June 20th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Are Older Voters Exceedingly Gullible?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Age, Barack, Democrats, Media, Memes

I know, it’s definitely a broad generalization and I’m prepared to get smacked down for it, but I bet if you did a poll and asked who believed the nonsense about Obama being a muslim, etc., the older voters would come out on top…by A LOT.
What else am I to make of stories like this [...]

May 22nd, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Plastic Surgeon Publishes Pro-Surgery Children’s Book

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Age, Bad Decisions, Books, Discuss, Health Care, Media, Science, WTF?

To be fair, I haven’t read My Beautiful Mommy, but still…that title is pretty bad.
If this is just a book about the idea that “mommy” is going to have some work done and how to explain it to a kid, that’s one thing. But if it’s more of a story about “transformation” from normal [...]

April 22nd, 2008 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Age Bigger Factor Than Race or Gender

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in 2008 Election, Age, Gender, Race

Well, this is interesting:
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows 72% of those surveyed say voters are ready to elect a qualified black candidate, 18% say they’re not. Meanwhile, 71% say Americans are ready to vote for a woman, 20% say they’re not. But only 61% say the voters are prepared to vote for a [...]

March 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 19 Comments »

Most Americans Don’t Read Political Blogs

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Age, Blogging, Polls

While that headline may be true, I’ll get into why it’s an unfair spin soon enough.
First, Reuters has their dreary spin on a Harris Interactive poll:
Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive. [...]
Despite [...]

March 10th, 2008 | Permalink| 6 Comments »