Via Andrew Sullivan, via Alex Pareene, via Buzzfeed, via Wonkette, I bring to you a new polling aggregator: UnSkewedPolls.com. Turns out, when you eliminate wanton skewing of polls, Obama is not leading after all. Here's Pareene:
The UnSkewed Average has Romney at 51.8 percent and Obama at a mere 44 percent. How does the genius behind UnSkewed Polls go about unskewing all the polls — like, for real, the vast majority of polls — that show the opposite result? Well, Dean Chambers, the polling genius behind the site, simply “re-weights” every single national poll to reflect his belief that Republicans are undersampled, based on right-leaning pollster Rasmussen’s partisan breakdown of the electorate. (Scott Rasmussen blurbs: “you cannot compare partisan weighting from one polling firm to another.”)
And obviously “re-weighting” every single poll to reflect an electorate made up of a plurality of self-identified Republicans also involves a bit of guesswork!
That's right, this is no joke. Go take a look, I'll wait. That guy went through every recent national poll, came up with own weights, and adjusted all the polls accordingly! This is a fantastic idea! This guy is destined to be the Republican Nate Silver. A job awaits at Fox News, right alongside Dick Morris. Two analysts: one makes up numbers completely and the other "unskews" by applying his own
skew interpretation of the numbers.
You know, between this polling site, Fox News and Conservapedia.com, there will soon be no need for rightwingers to interact with reality.