Posted on 02/28/2006 7:25:36 AM PST by Thanatos
Headsup to Newsbusters for this
CBS Slants Bush Poll in Favor of Democrats
In its classic "fair and balanced" tradition, CBS slanted in favor of Democrats its poll that found Bush has a 34 percent approval rating and a 59 percent disapproval rating, an all-time high for a CBS poll.
On the bottom of the PDF version of the poll (page 18) it says how many Democrats versus Republicans were contacted.
"Total Republicans" contacted: 272 unweighted and 289 weighted.
"Total Democrats" contacted: 409 unweighted and 381 weighted.
"Total Independents" contacted: 337 unweighted and 348 weighted.
Exactly! I don't understand how much our fellow FReepers really think that oversampling Dems (by this much) Bush's numbers- it's NOT significant. If you had a mix of 34%R, 34%D, 32%I, then Bush's figures only go up slightly, to 36.82%, which is still pathetic.
Even Rasmussen has Bush at 43.0% 2 days in a row
It is a FORGERY!
A term that CBS just loves, n'est ce pas?
Since the poll tacitly purports to represent prevailing opinion, it is fraudulent. And, according to an on line dictionary which defines* a forgery as "Something counterfeit, forged, or fraudulent."
So, the headline in Drudge, on Fox and elsewhere should rightly be... "CBS FORGES another one!"
*second definition.
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Polled during a period of FACT-FREE HYSTERIA on more than one issue. AS USUAL, when the facts come out, things begin to change. How many times have we seen this??
Got Memo? Got 22 Indictments?
This is how this works. LIBS MUST LIE, EVEN TO THEMSELVES NOW....
Then they pay for heavily biased polling to SUPPORT the lies, build massive conspiracies around the lies,
and then can't ever figure out what happened when it all comes crashing down around them...
This is becoming sad to watch. I almost pity them, as they march the Democratic Party to it's eventual destruction......
"Fake but accurate!"
Another Stain on CBS
The failure of this CBS poll to weigh both parties equally just goes to show how incredibly biased this poll really is...
http://lkmp.blogspot.com/2006/02/another-stain-on-cbs.html
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