Initially, many liberals panicked at the sight of the Gallup presidential election tracking poll and many conservatives jumped with glee. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has held a steady lead in the Gallup poll and has been shown to lead President Barack Obama by as many as 7 points (52-45) within the past week or so. He's led the president by between roughly 3 and 7 points for quite some time. Of course the media has loved this poll for story, controversy, argument and ratings purposes - especially when Romney's lead was 7. However, as some began to wonder and then notice, it appeared as if, along with Rasmussen, Gallup's poll results didn't quite fit in with all the others, which have had the two candidates essentially tied. Numbers geeks such as Nate Silver began dismissing the Gallup poll as an outlier. This may have prompted Gallup to release more detailed information regarding their sample and they recently did just that. Pretty much all the numbe...
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