Media: Keeping the Big Lie alive for 4 more years!
Posted on 10/30/2012 5:08:27 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
One would think that Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, every sufficiently wealthy news organization and anyone else interested in conducting a poll would be familiar with the basics of the American electoral system. Why they all insist on continuing to waste precious ink on national polls, then, is completely mystifying.
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They give plenty of weight to polls when they think it shows them as being ahead.
Dreadful writing? Check. Poor critical thinking skills? Yep. Rabid partisan? Of course! Congrats, buddy, you’re qualified to write analysis for Yahoo news.
In 2008 I kept hoping that Obama’s lead in the Gallup Poll and others was only because he had huge leads in places like NY and CA but that McCain could still pull it out with the Electoral College. Now the situation is reversed.
I haven’t made of study of it, but generally, it seems the big polls are fairly accurate.
I use Yahoo on a daily basis for years and this is pathetic even for them. From August to early/mid September, Yahoo had article after article of how Obama was kicking Romneys ass. They even had a chart on the right of the story page to show how well Obama was doing.
Then things changed. The chart disappeared and the stories started to get rarer and rarer about Obama’s lead. This was around mid to late September. Now new head lines pop up of what polls to believe and Gallop should not be trusted. Now they refuse to write about any poll that shows Romney leading and tell us not to look at national polls. But it’s the same polls they were publicizing just over a month ago.
As a registered independent in NJ I’m voting Romney and I hope he wins so I can see these liberal media heads explode from rage.
My first post btw :)
The Yahoo writer Rothschild publicly declared in Feb that Obama was going to win. As an academic statistician, he’s somewhat obligated to stick to his story to preserve his professional reputation. Sucks to be wrong.
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