Continues to just blow my mind that people believe any poll is honest. They ALL have an agenda, each and every one, from Fox, to Ras to all the rest.
Fox is one of the worst, they have had the wool pulled over their eyes for years with the folks at the liberal Opinion Dynamics out of Manchester NH I believe.
Science went out the windows years ago in regard to political polling.
Averaging phony polls has to take the cake...Unflippinb elievable.
So much of news nowadays revolves around polls. But opinion polls are ALWAYS all over the map. Obviously, if polls contradict each other, they all cannot be right. Given, that, why everyone obsesses over them is beyond me. The media is obviously trying to influence public opinion as opposed to informing people of the news of the day. If it comes from the leftiest of the leftest media, I wouldn't even give it the time of day.
FOX quit using Opinion Dynamics in early 2011. They now use an outfit run by a dem and a republican (supposedly). Even so, their polls are still awful. One of them about a month ago was sampling dems +8. Bret Baier, to his credit since most reporters simply quote the results and not the methods, pointed it out to his viewers. The reason? They oversampled dems because that is what other major polling outfits were doing and they just followed suit.
I thought it was interesting in FOX’s poll the other day that independents are now supposedly going for Obama by +8 over Romney. In their previous poll independents were going for Romney by about +10 over Obama. That seemed like quite a sway for a race that appears to be close.
Polls should be banned from after the last convention until the election.
I would like the msm to sweat a bit, not think they can sway the popular voter types...