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♪ gallups daily tracking poll puts mitt romney leading president obama 2% right now. gallup is one of dozens of polls published every week. the polls at a dizzying speed are enough to drive a person insane. no one, including myself can seem to look away. republicans question or rather freaked out over several polls released prior to the presidential debate with a sizable lead of president obama over mitt romney. >> that begs the question, are these polls dishonest? >> no. look, we endow them...

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Registered voters. >> other polling? >> most is the adult population. so, its not so much that. it is the fact that so many people are unengaged on issues that the pollsters dont want to recognize that they can really get big differences. the difference between a bailout and loans to the auto industry, found big differences. sorry. >> what i want to know, you are sophisticated pollsters, im not. if i look at a poll, what are the two or three questions i want to know to know whether -- >> its use...

Public opinion? when we say someone has a position or this position is polling, does that measure an actual thing out there or is it being constructed by the taking of the poll? >> it measures how people are responding to a question. people dont necessarily know as much as the beltway media think they do about the issues, right? so we were talking on break, cap and trade is a complex solution. >> to climate change. it would be a way of capping carbon emissions. >> pretty complex policy even by w...

Have time to add more perspective. we have more important and dramatic days with shifts in the race. most of the time, especially in the summer, it adds up to nothing. it was the same story, day after day after day. >> it was important to look at the average of polls. i think its what happens at five thirty eight. there are other polls. i think one of the things i have to be careful of as consumers of polls is you cant trust a single or individual poll. gallup is doing a tracking poll, its a tre...

Street. elites control the opinion. >> this is the vision. this is george gallups opinion, the father of polling. he had this to say. he thought what he was doing, this is his 1940 book. he thought he was bringing the scientific method to improve feedback, the way democracy works. if they act and learn by action if trues are relative upon the results which action achieves, the chief faith is a faith in experiment. it believes in the value of every contribution of political life and the right of ...

Unengaged on the issue and doesnt have an opinion. >> talk about reforming polling to do that or measure it. female] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day womens 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for womens health concerns as we age. it has more of 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day 50+.

Look at this chart. huge, huge up tick, right? we see it starting in the late 70s and it goes up. it goes with election cycles. my question here is, polling on how people vote. it looks to me, if you aggravate the polls, come up with an average, decent at predicting outcomes. then theres the other world of polling, what do people think, how do they feel, what are their preferences, do they like this position or that position. we cited them here. my question is, are they measuring anything real? ...

Talking about polling and a polling mad world. polling, particularly in terms of how good of a job it does in predicting elections. to me, its a tool that does a good job at one thing. with enough data, it does a good job of telling us who is going to win on election day. if you take the poll the weekend before the election, more times than not, the average of those polls tell you who is going to win. then theres the other using polling. its a larger use of polling that happens in between electi...

You are going to vote. its bad how who is going to vote. the models are crazy. >> the two polls are designed to convince everybody the election is over. >> democrats engaged in polling earlier this week questioning the methodology of the poll put romney up four points over barack obama. both parties have a tortured emotional lelationship with polling. why do we continue to listen? more importantly, what are the polls actually telling us? joining us is nate silver, author of "the signal and the n...