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To: ruschpa
These polls mean nothing until you read the demographics. In the AP poll out this evening, they weighted the poll so that 38% of the respondents were Republican and 50% were Democrat. In the CBS poll yesterday it was even worse. You MUST realize that the only news the media can completely manipulate anymore is their own polling data. So they do. And they create "great" headlines using clearly fraudulent data. It is a lie. And it is one more reason the old media is going the way of the dinosaur.
8 posted on 11/03/2005 4:48:53 PM PST by Rokke
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To: Rokke

Your numbers may be correct... but Fox News has the President at 39% the last time. You can't go around cherry picking polls. If every single poll has the President in the high 30s low 40s then you have to wonder...


13 posted on 11/03/2005 4:52:24 PM PST by ruschpa
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To: Rokke; ruschpa; All

Well said!

ALL of these MSM pollsters are manipulating their results by oversampling/overweighting Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independents.

AP/Ipsos Reid routinely oversamples Democrats by DOUBLE DIGITS -- their current poll features 50% Democrats: 38% Republicans.

CBSNews discovered that oversampling Democrats by 8 points wasn't enough in their most recent poll so they WEIGHTED their sample in such a way that it dropped an already anemic representation of Republicans from approximately 28% to 23% -- HEY CBS, WHY EVEN BOTHER INCLUDING REPUBLICANS IN YOUR SAMPLE?!

ABCNews/WashCompost doesn't release its sampling data; however, given that their results are similar to those manufactured by AP and CBS, I think we can conclude that they too grossly oversampled Democrats/Democrat-leaning Independents.


BOTTOMLINE: MSM pollsters are manufacturing data designed to advance the liberal agenda . . . nothing more nothing less. They know that because the President will never again stand for re-election, their polling data will never again be evaluated against the only polls that matter!

Fortunately, the President will continue to lead regardless of the polling data and the incessant MSM attacks. However, it is time for Republican congressmen (Senate and House) and Republican voters to help with some of the heavy lifting!!


29 posted on 11/03/2005 5:10:06 PM PST by DrDeb
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