About That Fox News Poll (CONDUCTED BY A PERRY POLLSTER!!)

Mighty Serf ^ | September 7, 2011 | Stacy Drake

[2ndDivisionVet]

Sounds like something a Democrat, Karl Rove or Ed Rollins would pull. The more of this I see, the more I know how much they fear her.

[cripplecreek]

I really don’t pay any attention to polls this far out.

[1rudeboy]

PERRRY!!!

[Sudetenland]

Right, pay no attention to the other 5 polls which show Perry in the lead. You just keep hoping by assuming that there is something fishy with this poll.

Let's see, no financial arrangement with the Perry camp, were solely interested in what kind of campaign techniques worked the best therefore clearly a biased poll.

Perfect linear logic to me. /rolleyes

Still, it is good to scrutinize any poll to see what questions were asked. Has that been done by you? Did you examine the details of the polling to see what the demographics were and what questions were asked? They always publish that information.

[Lakeshark]

Check this out. I wonder if the PerryKrishna brigade and all their poll quoting trolls will come on and splain this.........

[Sudetenland]

Sounds like “shoot the messenger” sour grapes to me.

[TheConservativeParty]

Good catch on who conducted the poll.
Polls.
They have zero influence on me.
I always figure they’re slanted, rigged, etc.

“Polls (Poles) are for strippers and cross-country skiers.”
Sarah Palin

[normy]

It seems he's comparing a poll from July (no Perry) to a poll in Sept. So 45% didn't want Palin in in July now it's in the seventies.

I would also add that if Perry's guys are conducting this poll, it would be for their own research 1st. Unless Perry, who has never lost an election, prefers his men lie to him by fudging numbers.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Are you sporting an extra chromosome? I wasn't questioning Perry's “lead” in the race, rather the polls’ showing of the dissatisfaction with Gov. Palin amongst different groups.

[BuckeyeTexan]

There is also the fact that the Fox poll numbers are very different from a poll that CNN conducted just this last July. Ian noted at the time:

Hmmm. What happened between the July CNN poll and this Fox News poll? What could it be? Oh, I know! Perry declared his candidacy.

Since Perry wasn't a candidate in July, it's not unreasonable or suspicious that the poll numbers would change significantly after his entry into the race.

[Comparative Advantage]

Let me guess, the pollster oversampled illegal aliens.

[dead]

This reminds me of those articles that attempt to invalidate any study that questions anthropomorphic global warming, because one of the authors was once a member of a think tank that accepted money from Exxon in 1986.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I don’t have a problem with Sarah Palin running personally. I DO have a problem with her basically toying with the electorate by dawdling about and causing all this speculation about whether or not she’ll enter the race.

She should just jump in now. The sooner she does, the sooner the Gringo de Mexico from Texas can run home crying to his momma.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Geez, the poll is about disapproval of Gov. Palin, not how well Gov. Perry was/is doing.

[normy]

I’m taking that!

[bwc2221]

I stopped watching Fox News cold turkey about six months ago and have not regretted it for a minute.

It's obvious that FNC took a sharp left right after the 2008 election as Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch docided to broaden their appeal to everyone to the right of CNN.

They decided to follow a tried and true RINO tactic - move as far to the left as possible without totally alienating conservatives.

Outside of Sarah Palin, what reliable conservative is on FNC? Sean Hannity claims to be a conservative, but when push comes to shove, he sides with the GOP establishment and, to be honest, Hannity couldn't make a solid defense of conservatism if his life depended on it.

The rest is a collection of RINOs (Rove, Perino, etc.), neocons (Kristol, Krathammer) and liberals (Whore-aldo, Beckel, etc.). Yet there FReepers who still believe FNC is solidly conservative and watch it religiously (unless WWE is on).

[Sudetenland]

Here is the detailed poll report. You can examine it yourself to see if anything suspicious shows up.

Fox News Poll: Perry Overtakes Romney as Top GOP 2012 Pick; Most Say Palin Should Stay Out of Race

Actual information always trumps opinion when it comes to determining the truth.

[CA Conservative]

It looks like they have been using the same polling companies since long before Perry joined the race, so I don't necessarily see anything underhanded here. Apparently they have asked a similar question before and gotten different results. The best thing would be to wait until the next time they ask the question and see if there is a trend, or to see if other polling companies are getting similar results.

A good example is her disapproval rating. There are numerous polls from different compaies showing her disapproval rating in the low to mid 60's. Since that number is consistent across polling companies and has consistently been at that level for over a year, I can accept that it is probably accurate.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yes, it is discouraging, some of the people FOX News has on. I watch it, because CNN is horribly PC and MSNBC is a sewer.

And yes, I watch WWE from time to time (Monday Night Raw).

[2ndDivisionVet]

See the Perrywinkles grow! Grow, Perrywinkles, grow! Hurry, before Rick is shown to be a dirty trickster!