Posted on 06/08/2005 5:45:37 AM PDT by crushkerry
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They left out a couple of statistics: Ineligible voters such as convicted felons or dead people account for 110% of voters in Democratic precincts.
Polls are news generators for these people who are to lazy to go out and get it theirselves.
Has the Wa Compost written or printed anything that is true in the past 4 decades?
Good article.
Here's an interesting question: could the MSM possibly do any more to help lower morale and lose the war than it is already doing now? The answer should be "what a ridiculous question! They are not trying at all to do those things!" But the fact that it could even be asked, and that the above answer doesn't spring automatically from everyone's lips, tells us a lot. I think.
I couldn't understand why number 5, religion, even made a difference when it's a RDD survey. Basically it should be you get who you get and that's the numbers but using religion in a poll, that's not about religion, would mean the pollsters are purposely trying to skew the results.
George $oreA$$ is the most dangerous single individual to our country and the safety of our families.
EXCELLENT analysis . . . BUMP!
The date.
Excellent work.
Glad you pointed that out to us. It never ceases to amaze me how you can put bias into a poll simply by leaving information out or using one word over another.
I often wonder about the question "Do you approve or disapprove of the Presidents handling of "blah blah blah". It is always automatically assumed that people that say they disapprove are against the President when in fact they may be thinking (examples)he should be tougher with the other party, use less negotiation, hit the enemy harder than we are, or that he never went far enough on tax cuts or spending cuts, etc. etc!
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BOL!
Yes I dropped the WaPo last year for this reason but you must accept that this is wonderful when election years come along and we hear the refrain about....."no one supports the Republicans", "I dont know anyone who voted for Him/Her", " Polls show Hillary would win by a landslide", "Where did we go wrong".....this is where the Dems always go wrong...feel good polling!
The whole herd of them should be ashamed of their lack of accuracy and retire to the woods they so love. The trouble is the woods are Red!
I don't think it's wise to put a lot of stock in polls. After all, it was polls who told us that John Kerry was going to win the election by a landslide.
Thanks for an excellent post.
Excellent analysis.
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Have J Schools shown any inclination during this same time period to teach their students about such distortions of the truth as this type of misleading polling as a "story?"
Thanks for digging the info up.
Number 2 answered the question about this poll for me.
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