Do not Trust Drudge

lol k2o4 check this out i found it at that drudge site

On October 31 2008 22:39 Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger wrote: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AFP) – Muscleman-turned-actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger called on Barack Obama to beef up his his policies -- and his body -- at a high-voltage campaign rally for Republican John McCain Friday. Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood action hero who is now the Republican governor of California, delighted a crowd of several thousand at a McCain campaign event in Ohio by ridiculing both Obama's policies and his slender physique. The Austrian-born former Mr Universe has hosted a bodybuilding tournament in Columbus for several years, and opened his address by inviting Obama to participate in the next event. "Every year in March I come here to organize the Arnold Classic, which is all about building the body and pumping," Schwarzenegger said. "That's why I want to invite Senator Obama because he needs to do something about those skinny legs. I'm going to make him do some squats. "And then we're going to make him do some biceps curls to beef up those scrawny little arms. But if he could only do something about putting some meat on his ideas. "Senator McCain on the other hand is built like a rock. His character and his views are solid."

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081031/...votemccainschwarzenegger_081031231405

On October 31 2008 23:08 lachlan wrote: lol k2o4 check this out i found it at that drudge site Show nested quote + On October 31 2008 22:39 Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger wrote: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AFP) – Muscleman-turned-actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger called on Barack Obama to beef up his his policies -- and his body -- at a high-voltage campaign rally for Republican John McCain Friday. Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood action hero who is now the Republican governor of California, delighted a crowd of several thousand at a McCain campaign event in Ohio by ridiculing both Obama's policies and his slender physique. The Austrian-born former Mr Universe has hosted a bodybuilding tournament in Columbus for several years, and opened his address by inviting Obama to participate in the next event. "Every year in March I come here to organize the Arnold Classic, which is all about building the body and pumping," Schwarzenegger said. "That's why I want to invite Senator Obama because he needs to do something about those skinny legs. I'm going to make him do some squats. "And then we're going to make him do some biceps curls to beef up those scrawny little arms. But if he could only do something about putting some meat on his ideas. "Senator McCain on the other hand is built like a rock. His character and his views are solid."

hahahaha is that real? Arnold is awesome :D

Drudge never had any credibility to lose.

roflmao! go arnold, that's hilarious =)

Read the actual page man, Zogby is a one day poll.

Drudge links to credible sources for his news, it would be different if he linked to pages he writes himself.

On November 01 2008 01:43 Moffa wrote: Read the actual page man, Zogby is a one day poll. Drudge links to credible sources for his news, it would be different if he linked to pages he writes himself.

I read the page and there was nothing in there linking to the 1 day zogby poll. And like I'm not saying he made up a poll number, I'm saying he's picking outliers and screaming to the heavens that they actually mean something. I don't think you understood what I was saying, or you don't understand how polling works, or you didn't bother to read my post. Either way you're missing the point - drudge is spinning and being extremely deceptive when he makes a post like that.

Also I'm not saying he doesn't link to credible sources, I'm saying he writes his own headlines and he WRITES MISLEADING DECEPTIVE HEADLINES WITH SPIN!

EDIT: when I took the SS, as you can see, the title was not a link. Now it is a link but it links to a report that DOES NOT HAVE MCCAIN WINNING 48-47. At least I can't find it anywhere in that report.

Nate silver of 538.com wrote:

Matt Drudge is touting the results of a one-day sample in a Zogby poll, which apparently showed John McCain ahead by 1 point. There are a couple of significant problems with this. Firstly, there is a reason that pollsters include multiple days of interviewing in their tracking polls; a one-day sample is extremely volatile, and have very high margins for error. Secondly, the Zogby polls have been particularly volatile, because he uses nonsensical party ID weightings, which mean that his weighting process involves making numbers doing naughty things that they usually don't like to do. Thirdly, Zogby polls are generally a lagging rather than a leading indicator. This is because he splits his interviewing period over two days; most of the interviews that were conducted in this sample took place on Thursday night, with a few this afternoon. The reason this is significant is because lots of other pollsters were in the field on Thursday night, and most of them evidently showed good numbers for Obama, as he improved his standing in 6 of the 7 non-Zogby trackers. Finally, there was no favorable news for McCain to drive these numbers. Polls don't move without a reason (or at least they don't move much). So go out to your Halloween parties and enjoy yourself, and we'll be back to covering the polls for you tomorrow.