CBS News/NYT Polls: 3/12/12

Below is the full data and questions for the CBS News/New York Times poll on President Obama and the Republican presidential race.

Stories on the poll:

Most GOP voters expect Romney nomination
Most support U.S. military action to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons
Most say employers should be allowed not to cover contraception
Poll: Romney, Santorum narrow gap on Obama
Obama's approval rating sinks to new low
Poll: Most think president can impact gas prices

President Obama and the general election:

The Republican presidential race:

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NewsBusters: CBS Buries Poll Finding 57% Against ObamaCare Mandate on Website
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[Turk3795]

re: the CBS/NYT poll being discussed -
How was this poll conducted? If it was via landline phone calls, one can assume the results are very skewed. The biggest clue (to me) is how Santorum leads the female vote from the respondents' responses, that is.

I suspect the pollsters did not reach those female (and male) voters who were at work with their cell phones, who have given up their landlines, etc.

"Dewey Defeats Truman" was the result of a telephone poll - the same problem, albeit for different reasons, was at the crux of this error, i.e., most of the working folks did not have landlines at all! Now they either do not have them or they are inaccessible because they are at work.

[Positivegirl]

Its always interesting when you come up with these polls out of nowhere....no one is coming into our community to take polls so who are the real people you are polling for these ridiculous reports you insist on posting??? It would make more sense to just post these as your opinion because thats all it really is.