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.

Just a few links that i thought were interesting…

1) Daily show viewers are more likely to know the issue positions and backgrounds of presidential candidates than people who do not watch Intersting.

2) Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet “basic international requirements” and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says. Great.

3) And, after reading those, you can take a little quiz to find out just how F**king american you really are.