IMHO and I have held this for years now, the “science” of political polling is long dead!
All they do is manufacture opinion, and I do not care if it`s Fox or Rasmussen or whatever, they are all garbage.
Newsweek I guess is the worst of them all, but really not much better than Fox and Ras, Fox is done by a liberal outfit of Manchester.
Sometimes I really think the conversation in the “news room” goes something like this.....
“Hey Charley, I am done with my Sarah Palin hit piece, what drawer are the Palin polls in? There`s one in particular that I am looking for, that would be perfect for my article.”
For the record... I have held this view before I even heard of Sarah Palin.
I am talking pre 2000 that the science of polling is dead
I realize that I was a lot younger then, and most likely a lot less aware of things, but my memory in the 1960s is that there was maybe a few polls on a Presidential election, maybe one or two within the last month or so. Like I said, there may have been more than that and I don't remember them, but I know for sure that there wasn't anything like what we are bombarded with now, daily polls about elections more than a year away. It has to be crystal clear to anyone with more than a few brain cells left that the whole purpose of this constant "polling" is to manipulate public opinion. Just look at how much we are being told about the "front-runner" in the Republican race when the first primaries and caucuses are months away, and the field hasn't even been filled in yet!