Push-polling, MSM style - Why NYTimes earnings, circulation plunge
A New York Times/CBS poll purports to find that support for the president's warrantless surveillance program is "mixed." But the poll is bogus. In addition to the usual MSM trick of over-sampling Democrats, including non-voters, etc., the pollsters asked misleading questions that do not reflect the actual nature of the NSA intercept program.
Of late, all these polls look like joke. Fox Opinion Dynamics poll is no better. It is the same democrat's firm doing polls for Newsweek. In it's latest Fox poll, Iran attack is supported by 51%. But in LATimes(!) poll 57% show support for the same. An added joke, Fox asks what type of attack they support - air-strike, ground strike etc.
Another poll about Gallop's Hillary support 51% against. When Mathews asked about it, Dana Milbank (WP) & Ann Kornblut (NYTimes) both questioning the way polls conducted saying, it is unreliable and mean nothing. 'nough said.
Why are they polling adults and not registered or likely voters all of a sudden?
The MSM uses/makes polls to make 'news'.
Polls are not 'news', but the MSM makes the results 'news'. What better way to manipulate 'news'? If the results are way off expectations, they can be shredded. Otherwise, they can be used to support the agenda of the MSM--to make headlines.