Posted on 09/05/2016 12:09:55 PM PDT by pabianice
Per Fox just a minute ago. Also: "Clinton is beating Trump on TV ads 10 to 1."
Fox: CNN lite. We’ve been onto you for some time, idiots.
Who’s watchin news today anyway ? Fox going down toilet fast.
“no one trailing on Labor Day has ever won the presidency”
Are we supposed to take this as a prediction? If they had wanted it to be a prediction, they would have had to say so.
But that would have made it obvious that they don’t know what they are talking about.
The past is not a predictor of the future. When the free will decisions of humans are included, it is impossible to predict the outcome.
“Fox is wrong, since Ronald Reagan was trailing, in the polls, all the way up to the election.”
Special Report
How Carter Beat Reagan
Washington Post admits polling was “in-kind contribution”; New York Times agenda polling.
By Jeffrey Lord – 9.25.12
Dick Morris is right.
Here’s something Dick Morris doesn’t mention. And he’s charitable.
Remember when Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980?
That’s right. Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980.
In a series of nine stories in 1980 on “Crucial States” — battleground states as they are known today — the New York Times repeatedly told readers then-President Carter was in a close and decidedly winnable race with the former California governor. And used polling data from the New York Times/CBS polls to back up its stories.
Four years later, it was the Washington Post that played the polling game — and when called out by Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins a famous Post executive called his paper’s polling an “in-kind contribution to the Mondale campaign.” Mondale, of course, being then-President Reagan’s 1984 opponent and Carter’s vice president.
All of which will doubtless serve as a reminder of just how blatantly polling data is manipulated by liberal media — used essentially as a political weapon to support the liberal of the moment, whether Jimmy Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale in 1984 — or Barack Obama in 2012.
First the Times in 1980 and how it played the polling game.
The states involved, and the datelines for the stories:
· California — October 6, 1980
· Texas — October 8, 1980
· Pennsylvania — October 10, 1980
· Illinois — October 13, 1980
· Ohio — October 15, 1980
· New Jersey — October 16, 1980
· Florida — October 19, 1980
· New York — October 21, 1980
· Michigan — October 23, 1980
Of these nine only one was depicted as “likely” for Reagan: Reagan’s own California. A second — New Jersey — was presented as a state that “appears to support” Reagan.
The Times led their readers to believe that each of the remaining seven states were “close” — or the Times had Carter leading outright.
In every single case the Times was proven grossly wrong on election day. Reagan in fact carried every one of the nine states.
Here is how the Times played the game with the seven of the nine states in question.
• Texas: In a story datelined October 8 from Houston, the Times headlined:
Texas Looming as a Close Battle Between President and Reagan
The Reagan-Carter race in Texas, the paper claimed, had “suddenly tightened and now shapes up as a close, bruising battle to the finish.” The paper said “a New York Times/CBS News Poll, the second of seven in crucial big states, showing the Reagan-Carter race now a virtual dead heat despite a string of earlier polls on both sides that had shown the state leaning toward Mr. Reagan.”
The narrative? It was like the famous scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy and her friends stare in astonishment as dog Toto pulls back the curtain in the wizard’s lair to reveal merely a man bellowing through a microphone. Causing the startled “wizard” caught in the act to frantically start yelling, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” In the case of the Times in its look at Texas in October of 1980 the paper dismissed “a string of earlier polls on both sides” that repeatedly showed Texas going for Reagan.
Instead, the Times presented this data:
A survey of 1,050 registered voters, weighted to form a probable electorate, gave Mr. Carter 40 percent support, Mr. Reagan 39 percent, John. B. Anderson, the independent candidate, 3 percent, and 18 percent were undecided. The survey, conducted by telephone from Oct. 1 to Oct. 6, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In other words, the race in Texas is close, assures the Times, with Carter actually in the lead.
What happened? Reagan beat Carter by over 13 points. It wasn’t even close to close.
http://spectator.org/articles/34732/how-carter-beat-reagan
Has there ever been a criminal running for president?
Gore, Carter and McCain all had leads
16 out of 20 post Labor Day polls had Al Gore leading in thw 2000 elections.
“Does anyone under 50 watch TV?”
If they do they do NOT watch commercials
FF
And Bush was just barely catching up to Dukakis by Labor Day weekend:
It was meant to give the illusion that the race was over and illary has this won.
Anything to prevent Trump from winning.
Almost all of their broadcast time has that theme.
Leni
what as romney vs obama in 2012?
Read a few days ago how Murdoch from day 1 wanted to make sure that Trump lost..that is why he had Megyn Kelly and the rest of the moderators at the 1st debate try to screw him over..they want Hillary Clinton to win so they can stay relevant..same thing happened in 2008, they wanted Obama to be elected so after wards they can bring in pissed off Republicans to watch their network, its all about ratings and MONEY..and by the way, Gregg Jarrett makes Shepard Smith seem decent..guess Murdoch paid for his alcohol rehab
I just now was polled for the first time in my voting life!!!! I was SO EXCITED Trump all the way to POTUS they ask the questions to try to get the results THEY WANT!!! Trump has been accused of being a racist would you be voting for him YES I WILL be voting for him!!!
I’ll take this supposed “maxim”, given that the following headline was posted by the London Independent this afternoon:
Donald Trump ahead of Hillary Clinton in latest opinion polls.
The drunk Gregg Jarret has been on and off FOX bad mouthing Trump. It is worst the CNN on air people. No wounder he is a substitute personality. I guess I will try FBN and see it is any better.
>>How does Hannity get away with supporting Trump?
Becuase he doesn’t have broad appeal. The only people who watch Hannity are the people who agree with Hannity. We make up the biggest demographic in the FNC viewership, so they have to throw us a bone or two.
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