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Bottom line: Dems favor Dems over McCain. Who else has time and inclination to waste several minutes on the phone with an anonymous poller? This is yet another agenda-driven attempt at persuasion crudely disguised as objective information. MSM political analysis is essentially a political infomercial: It looks like news or analysis but is really trying to sell you something. Unfortunately, the political version seems to actually fool people.

As I have said before, the media-industrial complex is not the free press of the Founding Fathers. It is an unelected and unaccountable shadow government whose policies and actions are determined solely by the prejudices, self-interest, and depraved value system of its elitist members.

This is also why I do not believe the left will push a revival of the Orwellian-named "fairness doctrine." Left-wing anti-free speech activists make a lot of noise about silencing Limbaugh et al, but that is window-dressing and hype for the Che t-shirt wearing, media-worshipping consumer units who make up the rank and file of the pop-left.

The last thing the real leaders of the left want is a court test of the fairness of their own media. That WILL happen if the "fairness doctrine" takes loyal Americans off the air.

1 posted on 04/05/2008 10:42:58 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
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To: atomic conspiracy
ahhhh,... another C poll.
2 posted on 04/05/2008 10:48:39 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Thanks for this. I remember CNN had generic Dems over Repubs by 20% last time, too. Where does someone go to sue for political malpractice? Missing by 5% is pathetic enough, but they missed by 12 or 13!


3 posted on 04/05/2008 10:51:28 AM PDT by guitarist
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To: atomic conspiracy
In the 2006 mid-term elections, when the Dems beat the Repubs by about 7.5% in the aggregate House vote, the last CBS News/New York Times poll before the 2006 mid-terms forecast a Dem margin of victory of 18%, missing by about 10 points.

The article gives us reason not to believe what the author has to say.

4 posted on 04/05/2008 10:55:23 AM PDT by paudio (Michelle Obama: a Typical Black Woman)
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To: atomic conspiracy

How cruel of them Democrats to beat a poor old defenseless war veteran, shame on Clinton and Obama, though Obama may find the old fella a little tougher to beat then polls suggest.


5 posted on 04/05/2008 10:57:06 AM PDT by Son House (Democrat High Tax Rates Suppress Opportunity and Jobs..)
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To: atomic conspiracy

When they call here, I hang up. Maybe there needs to be a poll on who is most likely to sit and answer poll questions - Democrats, Republicans, or Independents. But how could that be acomplished?


6 posted on 04/05/2008 11:04:53 AM PDT by ElmoMobito
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