Gallup polls are retarded

Check this one out: Gallup released a poll yesterday saying that Bush was in the lead. The only problem? They poll more GOP ‘likely voters’ than democrats. And this isn’t even the first time they’ve done it!

Gallup has done it again. After supplying CNN and USA Today with a poll two weeks ago that showed a double-digit Bush lead amongst likely voters that turned out to have a significant bias in its sample favoring the GOP, Gallup did it again yesterday.

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Likely Voter Sample Party IDs – Poll of September 13-15
Reflected Bush Winning by 55%-42%

Total Sample: 767
GOP: 305 (40%)
Dem: 253 (33%)
Ind: 208 (28%)

Likely Voter Sample Party IDs – Poll of September 24-26
Reflected Bush Winning by 52%-44%

Total Sample: 758
GOP: 328 (43%)
Dem: 236 (31%)
Ind: 189 (25%)

UPDATE: Gallup responds. Too bad it’s nothing more than a ‘Our methods are too complicated for your simple mind to understand’ response.