Well, when ya don't like the message what do you do? Well, if your Barry or any of the thugs who work for him, what you do is to go out and shoot the messenger! It would seem that that's what Barry's team does every time someone gives them some bad news. This band of crybabies known as Barry's campaign recently went after Gallup, attacking the methodology the polling folks used just days after the polling group, in taking action that would seem to call into question the accuracy all of their polls since, adjusted their methodology in a way that benefited Barry.
This time around, the criticism came from the same Barry pollster who ver recently had a pretty good time mocking the Romney team for debating the reliability of some polls that implied Barry was farther in front than most other evidence would suggest. After Gallup/USA Today released a poll showing Mitt Romney tied with Barry among likely female voters in swing states, it was Barry pollster Joel Benenson who was heard complaining, loudly, about the supposed "deep flaws in Gallup’s likely voter screen" and then proceeded to dismiss the survey as an "extreme outlier."
David 'My Mommy Was A Commie' Axelrod, the guy always described as being Barry’s top campaign strategist, made a similar argument earlier this year. "Gallup is saddled with some methodological problems," Axelrod tweeted back in April, when it then showed Romney with a five-point lead over the president after trailing throughout March. The difference between Axelrod and Benenson, of course, is that Benenson specifically derided these kinds of comments just two weeks ago.
"I understand that the Romney campaign feels that they need to talk about the public polls," Benenson told The Washington Post. Adding, "We don’t." Benenson argued in that interview that black turnout would be just as high this year as it was in 2008. "The notion that this electorate isn’t going to be as diverse as it was is frankly a fantasy," Benenson opined. "That reality may be uncomfortable for the Romney campaign, but this will be an electorate that has been as diverse as the previous four presidential elections."
In light of those remarks, Benenson’s latest criticism of Gallup is a little surprising, and not just because it reveals that the Barry campaign also now feels the need to debate poll accuracy. Gallup recently changed their methodology in a way that favored President Obama. "Gallup altered its methodology with a month to go until Election Day," The Weekly Standard's Jay Cost observed last week in a discussion of Barry’s rather surprising leap to a 54 percent job approval rating. "And the result – at least on the job approval question – is a shift in Obama’s favor."
Personally, I've never been a big believer in polls, there's just too many ways that they can be manipulated. Granted some can safely be considered as being lass suspect than others, but I've always found it's just less stressful to ignore all of them. Like has been said so many times before, the only poll that counts is the one on Election Day. Of course that doesn't mean that Democrat don't try to manipulate than one as well. Usually through their standard practice of implementing a little voter fraud wherever it might be needed. So, we'll just wait and see.
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