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NV Congressional District 3: Oceguera D vs. Heck R (Original Post) JohnnyLib2 Sep 2012 OP
LVRJ poll said 53-40 Heck BUT.... Quiet_Dem_Mom Sep 2012 #1
good for Ralston JohnnyLib2 Sep 2012 #2

Quiet_Dem_Mom

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1. LVRJ poll said 53-40 Heck BUT....
Thu Sep 20, 2012, 03:38 PM
Sep 2012

It may be more in the toss-up area...hard to tell.

Jon Ralston (pol writer) noted some oddities in the demographics used in the poll. The Review-Journal is notoriously right-leaning and Ralston's called them out a few times on it--note the quotation marks around "newspaper" in his quote.

http://nvdems.com/index.php/posts/entry/press/there-they-go-again-ralston-slams-review-journals-severely-flawed-heck-oceg

From the website:

“----53 percent male vs. 47 percent female turnout. Really? I don't think so.



----Voter registration in CD3 is almost even, about 500 voters separating Democrats and Republicans among almost 295,000 registered. The breakdown in the poll: 37R, 32D. What?



----The voters surveyed cast ballots this way in the 2010 election: 49 percent Republican, 35 percent Democratic. Odd? I think so.



“I didn't think the "newspaper's" polling could get worse from 2010. But it may be slithering under that low bar. Oceguera may well be in a lot of trouble, but if this poll got to the right result, it's accidental.” [Ralston Flash, 9/14/2012]

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