As Twitchy reported earlier, Gallup dropped a bomb today with its daily poll showing Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama by a 52-45 margin among likely voters. As that post showed, conservatives were thrilled with the latest numbers: no candidate polling over 50 percent this late in the game according to Gallup’s model has lost. Shall we check in with the other side for reactions? Do polls matter now or not?
Gallup daily tracking poll has Yankees winning tonight.
— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) October 18, 2012
Gallup daily tracking poll says rich people will dress up & try to be funny at Al Smith dinner tonight. Zero % margin of error.
— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) October 18, 2012
Gallup has examined their data and determined Germany won WWII. Rasmussen says it was a "Toss up."
— markm (@markm1962) October 18, 2012
Just for fun I kinda hope Gallup has Romney +10 tomorrow; #sillyseason
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 18, 2012
https://twitter.com/EliBraden/status/258984423700189184
Help us, Nate Silver. You’re our only hope!
Nate Silver reminds that 10 days before 2000 election, Gallup had Bush leading Gore by 13 points. http://t.co/O6r9aQNe]
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) October 18, 2012
Obama supporters in need of a soothing balm can apply Silver’s latest New York Times blog liberally.
[Gallup’s] results are deeply inconsistent with the results that other polling firms are showing in the presidential race, and the Gallup poll has a history of performing very poorly when that is the case.
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With so much data to sort through, it will usually be a counterproductive use of one’s time to get overly attached to the results of any one particular poll.
https://twitter.com/Erin1157/status/259073229350637569
https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/259070432135766017
Nate Silver: "Gallup Performs Poorly When Out of Consensus" http://t.co/X32vKTiC?-. Missed both 2008 and 2010 elections.
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) October 18, 2012
@markos why are people so obsessed w/ gallup?
— John Ichord (@WCTG_MO) October 18, 2012
https://twitter.com/Jeanine_OConnor/status/259075420446654464
Um, OK. But Democratic consultant Joe Trippi thinks that liberals would be better off not dismissing Gallup’s numbers so quickly.
With today's Gallup Tracking numbers Romney 52% & Obama 45% — I do not think Gallup is an anomaly. Dems should take it seriously.
— Joe Trippi (@JoeTrippi) October 18, 2012
I don't believe Romney has the size lead that Gallup's track shows. Smaller than 7pts. But Dems should treat trend & movement as real.
— Joe Trippi (@JoeTrippi) October 18, 2012
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