Posted on 08/10/2013 10:02:45 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The media loves polls. Why shouldn’t they, for the most part they control their outcome and can use them to generate fake “news” items. The media used a steady stream of twisted and distorted polls to try to convince America that we were “demanding” strict gun control – even offering one that said eighty percent of Republicans favored tighter background checks. Of course they failed, but that hasn’t stopped them from using polls as weapons against conservatives. Nevertheless, one feature of a poll that will keep the media from using it is a message that the media and its Democrat pals don’t like.
Last month McClatchy quietly released the results of a survey they did on sentiments toward required voter ID laws. The results are so important that...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
On 7/25, McClatchy posts a poll commissioned to Marist to measure Voter ID sentiments.
On 7/26, Breitbart takes McClatchy's poll and post the results along with come commentary.
On 8/10, Coach Is Right takes the McClatchy poll and does pretty much the same as Breitbart.
Also on 8/10, the Coach Is Right article is posted on FR.
Think this has been passed around enough? Considering, as far as I can tell, these important poll results have not been reported in the main stream press, I'd say no.
If you want the unadulterated poll results, check this .pdf from McClatchy.
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