I have been very critical of all polling and particularly Fox News for years. I am on record here long before I ever heard of Sarah Palin, critiquing Fox News polls as well as the rest.
Fox news has a terrible track record with their polling, whether it`s Opinion Dynamics out of Manchester NH or other pollsters they have used.
Nobody else has Gov Palin as low as 8%, it`s a total lie!
Fox News Opinion Dynamics last poll prior to the 2004 election, had Kerry up with a pretty good margin. CNN, NBC etc etc all trumpeted the Fox News Poll from the rooftops.
Turns out they polled on Halloween weekend while parents,Republicans/voters were either out tricker treating or preparing to.
Fox had the pollster on after the election looking sheepish. He said we thought the poll suspicious but released it anyway. He said in hind site was probably not a good idea to poll over Halloween.
They tried to throw the election to Kerry, as simple as that.
Brit Hume once said of their polling, it`s not done by a bunch of Republicans, he was not kidding.
I’m not in agreement with your critisism of all polling but yeah....FOX has issues. Really all the media polls do. I stick to the non media driven ones...well with exception of Zogby who completely discredited himself years ago.