Why am I not surprised that the LA Slimes would do this?
POLLS by the media are nothing but a free ticket to circumvent the election laws as to money spent by the slimey lib's. It was practically invented by the slimey Clinton mob.
And this little tidbit of news actually surprises people????
It actually upsets and concerns some of our fellow Freepers????
Why?
Why does anything the LA Times says or prints worry anyone here???
I don't understand...it's a biased, lying, fantasy rag little better than the National Inquirer.
In fact, the Inquirer says that Kerry is favored over Bush by most Martians!
Just about as meaningful!
Come on folks....get real! Just disregard anything coming from the LA Times.
LA Times unfair!!!!
Say it ain't so!!!
Bump to spread the word
somebody with more math brains than me (and that is a lot of you) if 38% were demos and 25% were pubs and kerry had a 7% lead, what would the "lead" be if the poll was 50-50 demos and pubs?
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And in other news, the Pope is reported to be Catholic...
Why are you overlooking another possibility? Gross incompetence. It wouldnt be the first time someone screwed up and forgot to control the sample. I really doubt they set out to find 38% Dems and 25% Republicans. I think it just happened and if they noticed it in the data, they buried it in order to satisfy the editors desire to run with story.
Anyone with a memory can recall how thoroughly jimmeh cahtah was thrashing Ronald Reagan in Big Media's polls of summer '80.
And who can forget the flaying-by-poll Walter Mondale conducted against Ronald Reagan through Big Media in summer '84!
Not to mention the coming Dukakis landslide promised by Big Media polls the summer of '88.
I recall Big Media pollsters of '92 debating whether Perot support was coming from Clinton or Bush voters!
Who can forget the tight contests Big Media polls were calling for in what became the '94 Republican sweep?
Big Media pollers predicted a klyntyn landslide in '96!
I remember Big Media polls in '02 elections calling for Republican losses!
And now, Big Media poll pimps say that Kerry is ahead!/neck and neck!/gaining!
Big Media does not poll-they Push Poll.
Draw the opposite conclusion from the Big Media agitprop and you'll always be correct.
Oh, and one more thing- Do not buy their product in any form. You watch/read them- you support them.
AV
Anyone with a memory can recall how thoroughly jimmeh cahtah was thrashing Ronald Reagan in Big Media's polls of summer '80.
And who can forget the flaying-by-poll Walter Mondale conducted against Ronald Reagan through Big Media in summer '84!
Not to mention the coming Dukakis landslide promised by Big Media polls the summer of '88.
I recall Big Media pollsters of '92 debating whether Perot support was coming from Clinton or Bush voters!
Who can forget the tight contests Big Media polls were calling for in what became the '94 Republican sweep?
Big Media pollers predicted a klyntyn landslide in '96!
I remember Big Media polls in '02 elections calling for Republican losses!
And now, Big Media poll pimps say that Kerry is ahead!/neck and neck!/gaining!
Big Media does not poll-they Push Poll.
Draw the opposite conclusion from the Big Media agitprop and you'll always be correct.
Oh, and one more thing:
Do not buy their product in any form. You watch/read them= you support them.
AV
BEAR CRAPS IN WOODS
Gee whiz, doncha think this should have been posted under "Breaking News?"
Pollaganda strikes again.
Do slanted polls do anything?
A strong, active Republican or Democrat would vote for his or her candidate even if the polls showed 95-5% against him. What effect do polls have on apolitical, busy, barely interested Americans who DO bother to vote?
If you lean Democrat but you aren't married to Kerry, are you less likely or more likely to vote for him if he is leading in what you believe are true polls? Some would say that you hop aboard the winner's bandwagon, but others might think you'd lean toward an underdog.
I am not sure that the Times and other sources of push polls have thought the psychology of this any farther through than just making Democrats smile as they read their morning paper.
LA Times poll dishonest? ::::gasp!::::: It just can't be!
Because I'm skeptical of all polls, this most certainly doesn't surprise me. Agenda-driven manipulation of polls is far, far more common than many people may realize.