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To: zook
Rather than jump to cheap shots, use some logic. Are you suggesting that ABC rigged its poll to show support for President Bush? Actually, it's more likely that support for W on this is much higher, given the anti-Bush bias of most polling.

I'm not suggesting that the poll numbers are rigged. I just think that it's ironic that a large contingent of Freepers jump on the poll bash bandwagon whenever a poll reports results they don't like, but "good" poll results are accepted uncritically.

68 posted on 05/12/2006 7:00:20 AM PDT by Denver Ditdat ("Deus Vult" is the answer to "Allahu Akbar")
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To: Denver Ditdat

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69 posted on 05/12/2006 7:01:59 AM PDT by zook
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To: Denver Ditdat
Rather than jump to cheap shots, use some logic. Are you suggesting that ABC rigged its poll to show support for President Bush? Actually, it's more likely that support for W on this is much higher, given the anti-Bush bias of most polling. I'm not suggesting that the poll numbers are rigged. I just think that it's ironic that a large contingent of Freepers jump on the poll bash bandwagon whenever a poll reports results they don't like, but "good" poll results are accepted uncritically.

No truth is absolute, and if you were stupid enough to think someone always lied, you'd be laughably easy to manipulate.

It's not a question of whether polls are inherently good or evil; it's a question of which you trust more: a poll, or the voices in Chris Matthews' head.

80 posted on 05/12/2006 7:35:45 AM PDT by noncommie
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