Posted on 11/01/2006 10:51:01 AM PST by excludethis
Political Wire looks at the Wall Street Journal/Zogby Interactive polls, which show "Democrats taking the lead in two races and have a very good chance at taking control of the Senate after next week's elections."
But some of the results seem to run counter to many other independent polls. While the latest round shows Democratic challenger Jim Webb leading Republican Sen. George Allen in Virginia – something three other polls, including CNN's, have found in the last 24 hours – it also shows Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown's lead over Republican Sen. Mike DeWine falling to just two percentage points in Ohio, a result unlike every other poll.
Anything Zogby is involved in is skewed to the dems. No wonder it doesn't make any sense.
Most likely they oversampled Democrats, i.e., cooked the poll.
uH oh...I thought the dems were winning in a landslide.
More like a mudslide.
Now another poll showing Webb ahead...that is a real worry....
I don't believe for a minute the pedophile will win in Virginia. This is more B.S. from a Democratic shill, Zogby.
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It really depends on how they are polling and where they are drawing sample from. If they call 1,000 people in NVA then those results will differ to those of a Richmond area poll or down in Norfolk.
I suspect that none of the polls have any meaning in light of the current Kerry debacle.
Perhaps we'll have a better read Friday/Monday.
Look, there was a poll posted today at free republic with Allen up 3. But, screw the polls. They're all guesstimates made by liberals who want their guy to win.
Another poll just recently has Allen up....so thank goodness, there are differing results here.
Also, the undecided leaners tend to be leaning toward Allen according to Roanoke College's poll.
Just remember, the Wall Street Journal 'news division', which is associated with Zogby in this poll (and NBC in other polls), is further left than all other MSM. The far left 'news division' of WSJ is often confused with the 'editorial division', which is decidedly conservative. They are two different entities.
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A Measure of Media Bias
by Tim Groseclose, Department of Political Science, UCLA and Jeff Milyo, Department of Economics, University of Missouri
December 2004
"One surprise is the Wall Street Journal, which we find as the most liberal of all 20 news outlets. We should first remind readers that this estimate (as well as all other newspaper estimates) refers only to the news of the Wall Street Journal; we omitted all data that came from its editorial page. If we included data from the editorial page, surely it would appear more conservative.
Second, some anecdotal evidence agrees with our result. For instance, Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid (2001) note that “The Journal has had a long-standing separation between its conservative editorial pages and its liberal news pages.” Paul Sperry, in an article titled the “Myth of the Conservative Wall Street Journal,” notes that the news division of the Journal sometimes calls the editorial division “Nazis.” “Fact is,” Sperry writes, “the Journal’s news and editorial departments are as politically polarized as North and South Korea.”[24]
Third, a recent poll from the Pew Research Center indicates that a greater percentage of Democrats, 29%, say they trust the Journal than do Republicans, 23%. Importantly, the question did not say “the news division at the Wall Street Journal.” If it had, Democrats surely would have said they trusted the Journal even more, and Republicans even less.[25]
Finally, and perhaps most important, a scholarly study—by Lott and Hasset (2004)—gives evidence that is consistent with our result. As far as we are aware this is the only other study that examines the political bias of the news pages of the Wall Street Journal. Of the ten major newspapers that it examines, the study estimates the Wall Street Journal as the second-most liberal.[26] Only Newsday is more liberal, and the Journal is substantially more liberal than the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, and USA Today."
http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm
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