Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   Speedy keep. Clearly quite notable, well-sourced, extremely important at this point in time... it's one thing to review the validity of this article on November 5, but certainly not now. Mike (Kicking222) 17:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008

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Anonymous user (someone who didn't wish to log in?) posted this AFD request: I have moved the text so far from the talk page. The Evil Spartan (talk) 15:45, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not news. None of the information will be useful after the election. 140.247.243.171 (talk) 03:46, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * KeepI agree that this article might not be as useful after the election but its incredibly useful now. Please do not delete this page.  Thanks! Leahcim506 (talk) 05:48, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Your AfD is just pretty dumb vandalism. You've not even listed the page properly. 90.231.2.252 (talk) 08:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * KeepThis is my first post on Wikipedia, so if the format is not correct, my apologies. I'd like to say that I've bookmarked this article and that I check it every day; it is immensely informative, and I would appreciate it not being deleted. Furthermore, I think that this article will continue to be of interest after the election, if only to a more specialized readership of political scientists. 76.200.161.110 (talk) 13:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Your posting is fine to me. The point is that the winner of a Presidential election is based on electoral votes from each state as opposed to the total popular vote.  That makes this article necessary after the election to determine why the winner won the election. Steelbeard1 (talk) 14:08, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Legitimate and viable topic as long as it's sourced, etc. To those IPs who placed opinions above, please note that registered users' opinions tend to carry more weight, so I'd advise you to register or log in if you want your comments to count fully (though this is, of course, not a "vote"). 23skidoo (talk) 15:55, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep. On topic, multi-user edited, rolling-current article about one of the most important events of our time. An obvious keep. Setwisohi (talk) 15:58, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep The "usefulness" argument for deletion is bogus and not based on Wikipedia deletion policies. But in fact state level opinion polling is the basis for a candidate giving up in a state and withdrawing resources, as McCain recently did in Michigan, or for their making extra appearances in and running more TV ads in a state which polls show to be a battleground, or a state they thought was solidly in their column, but which polls show their lead to be diminishing in. The real issue is notability, which is demonstrated by substantial coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources of state level polling. And notability is not temporary, so if the 2008 state polls are notable now, their notability will continue. Edison (talk) 16:01, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


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