Posted on 01/02/2014 3:23:15 AM PST by Timber Rattler
After a year of seeing President Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the president’s pollster is offering a strikingly candid and pessimistic New Year’s resolution.
Reporters should go the next “year without reporting any public polling data,” Joel Benenson, president and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, said.
His comments were made to reporter Mike Allen, who published them in his daily “Politico Playbook” morning newsletter on Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I wouldn’t have a problem with this. So often we’ve seen rigged polling that gets used to ‘make news’ and lead public opinion.
A pollster advising not to cover polls? Seems to be troubling times in the kingdom.
They will have these bogus editorials about the “most admired people” or the “most modern people” etc...
“They will have these bogus editorials about the “most admired people” or the “most modern people” etc...”
And, Hillary has received nine news-making “awards” in the last ten months. But she’s also a Rhodes Scholar, as is Bill. I’ll bet you couldn’t occupy a phone booth with all of the conservative Rhodes Scholars. (I think some of these awards came with money which, of course, is not a political donation.)
Liberalism requires constant affirmation to maintain such demonstrably failed beliefs. What they believe doesn’t have to be true, it just have to have a lot of adherents.
So the fact that the polls are now going against them is an existential threat. They now fear the preference cascade, and rightly so.
“.....So often we’ve seen rigged polling that gets used to ‘make news’ and lead public opinion”.
In the case of odumbo’s bad polling numbers, if every person in the U.S. was “polled”, the results would be the same. Odumbo’s a looser!
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