Its science.

  • It’s science.

You armchair political observers out there trying to handicap the upcoming Senate bout between Sherrod Brown and Josh Mandel are probably getting a little dizzy. Just yesterday we heard reports the race between the deep-pocketed Republican hopeful and sitting Senator was dead even. Now, over the Wheaties today we see another poll puts Brown ahead by double digits. We’re talking a game-change gulf in these two results, so what gives?

Well, it’s a difference between the polling, a pretty common difference in the polling, as it turns out. Today’s data set was courtesy of poll power house Quinnipiac University. As reported in the Plain Dealer, the incumbent leads 46 to 36 percent among 1,246 possible voters. Monday’s poll was done by Rassmussen, which put both candidates at 43 percent of 500 voters.

But the difference between the two studies goes beyond the larger net Quinnipiac cast for the sample. Rassmuseen has a history of overshooting the odds of Republican success.

This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2012.

3 replies on “WTF is Up with These Mandel-Brown Polls”

  2. Josh would not be in this contest at all if it was not for the big bucks behind him…The US Chamber hates Sherrod Brown more than anybody and would pay any amount of money to get him out of politics. The blitz on Sherrod by The US Chamber is ugly beyond belief..such total bullshit yet so many idiots love such crap. The only organization worse than The US Chamber is The Norquist Pledge..The country would be so much better off without these two repubic-hair organizations. I’m a proud libtard so all you repubichairs can just go piss and moan about your fucking taxes or about every poor fucker in the country picking your pocket…Just where in the fuck did these repubichairs ever get the idea they were the true Americans and the only ones who worked for a living? Most of the repubichairs I know just kiss the bosses republican ass and try to get the libtards fired.

  3. There are so many pricks
    In politics
    They all have a point of view
    They cry and scream and say things so mean
    And the honest are only a few

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