NJDC dismissive of Obama poll cited by RJC

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–Some have pointed to Wednesday’s Quinnipiac poll and claimed that Obama’s support in the Jewish community is “declining quickly.” Unfortunately,  for Obama’s critics this poll has an “unacceptably high” margin of
error and Quinnipiac’s Jewish approval rating is “unreliable.”

See today’s JTA’s piece, “Don’t believe today’s Obama’s Jewish poll
numbers”  (http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/12/09/1009644/dont-believe-todays-obamas-jewish-poll-numbers).

“This is the latest in a long stream of examples in which the  Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) leans on polls with truly tiny  Jewish subsamples, yielding unacceptably high margins of error. In  this case, the wild fluctuation from month to month in Quinnipiac’s
Jewish approval rating — swinging more than 20 percent in three weeks  — shows how unreliable this sample is, and how desperate and  over-reaching the RJC are in their efforts,” said David A. Harris,  NJDC’s President. “I know the RJC and their friends continue to hope  for their Chanukah miracle, but this flawed polling result isn’t it.”

Before Wednesday’s promotion of a unreliable poll result by RJC, the latest example was a Politico post, “Was Jersey Jewish poll trayf?” (http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1109/Was_Jersey_Jewish_poll_trayf_.html)

(Here’s a link to the RJC  press release carried by San Diego Jewish World)

And the link to Quinnipiac’s releases:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1277.xml?What=&strArea=&strTime=

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Preceding provided by National Jewish Democratic Council