Ohio Poll Worthless

As Daily KOS correctly points out today The Columbus Dispatch poll has many problems with randomization - which is a wee bit important characteristic of polling and survey data - and add the fact that it is a paper questionnaire, we simply cannot give this poll any weight what-so-ever.  Kos is right.

This raises so many critical questions about polling data being cited by the Republicans.  Let alone some polling in Ohio.  A friend of mine received the survey and thought it was so poorly constructed that she threw it away.  Many Republicans in and outside of the state cite the Dispatch poll, perhaps now we know the reason why...