Posted on 01/08/2006 11:18:52 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Congress, Surveillance Poll Oversampled Dems
GOP critics are hailing an Associated Press-Ipsos poll purporting to show that the public opposes both continued GOP control of Congress and the Bush administration's terrorist wiretapping program.
But it turns out that the AP-Ipsos sample used to answer both questions included far more Democrats than Republicans.
On Friday, a widely circulated AP report announced that a large plurality of Americans now favor a Democrat takeover of Congress [49 to 36 percent].
A follow-up AP story claimed that by a margin of 56 to 42 percent, Americans think it was wrong for President Bush to wiretap U.S.-based terrorists without a court warrant.
Readers howled when both AP reports turned up on NewsMax, pointing out links that show the poll was heavily stacked with Democrats. A quick check of the Ipsos web site turned up the telltale evidence in the poll's second question.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I think this technique is very nearly "standard." The left/media is using these phony polls as propaganda--"See, everyone else thinks the Republicans are evil, so you should, too."
and the MSM has to cahonies to report it as "news".
House races are decided by voters in that district.At this point there have been no primaries so there are no official candidates opposing any incumbent of either party yet.
The same is true with Senate races so until there is a specific person running against a particular incumbent any poll such as this is a wisp of smoke in a whirlwind.
Isn't Ipsos a Canadian company?
http://www.ipsosna.com/news
And we're all too familiar with the APs NYT-like take on politics.
Unless I see the sample group and methodology, any poll with the AP on it is spinach, not science.
Managed, slanted, truncated, selectively edited, shaded, agenda driven, biased, exaggerated, endlessly repeated. Believable?...Well...no. The nature of MSM news today.
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