Useless Poll of the Day

With virtually every national poll of registered voters now showing the presidential contest in a dead heat, the Washington Post today releases perhaps the most meaningless poll this election cycle.

Democrat Barack Obama holds a two-to-one lead over Republican John McCain among low-wage workers but many are uncommitted to either presidential candidate, to according to a new poll by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.

Obama's advantage is due largely to overwhelming support from African Americans and Hispanics, but even among white voters, the Illinois senator leads McCain 47 percent to 37 percent, The Washington Post reported in Monday editions.

The poll found that one in six white workers polled remains uncommitted to either candidate, the Post reported.

Most of the respondents were pessimistic about the impact of the November 4 election. A majority of those polled, both white and minority, said that no matter who won their personal financial situation would be unlikely to change, it said.

The poll included interviews with 1,350 randomly selected workers 18 to 64 years of age who put in at least 30 hours a week but earned $27,000 or less last year, the newspaper said.

Not registered voters, not likely voters, but randomly selected workers.

The national poll was conducted June 18 to July 7 among randomly selection low-wage workers. The results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.

A poll of randomly selected workers conducted a month ago does not reflect current trends.

And it only stands to reason that since most of them are minorities, they'll go overwhelmingly for Obama. Nor should it come as any shock that low-income workers tend to vote Democrat. After all, which party promises all sorts of freebies while promising to tax the rich?

It's as if this poll released yesterday where McCain leads Obama 56-24% accurately reflect the entire nation.

Naturally, with this attempt at manipulating the news, they overlook this poll where a majority says Obama was being racist with his dollar bill remarks last week.

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