NBC Admits Biased Pro-Kerry Media Fail to Hurt Bush in Polls

NewsMax ^ | 7.23.04

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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Friday, July 23, 2004

NBC Admits Biased Pro-Kerry Media Fail to Hurt Bush in Polls

Yes, yes, we know that opinion polls are silly and inaccurate and that the only poll that matters is the one in the election booth, but some people enjoy poring over them. These folks should read on; everyone else should instead turn to, say, President Bush's speech today.

Three new surveys show Bush and John Kerry in a statistical tie.

• We've pointed out before how the pro-Democrat Los Angeles Times slants its surveys, and here's another example. Less-inaccurate surveys question "likely" voters, but the Times queried 1,529 registered voters nationwide from Saturday to Wednesday. People who are registered but don't vote are disproportionately Democrat.

  Even with that advantage, Kerry led Bush by only 2 percentage points, according to Gray Davis' favorite newspaper. Kerry had 46 percent, Bush 44 percent and Ralph Nader 3 percent, with 7 percent undecided. When the poll excluded Nader, Kerry still had a 2-point edge.

  "Kerry's lead is within the poll's margin of error [plus or minues 3 points] and smaller than his advantage last month in a Times poll," the paper admitted.

  It said 51 percent approved of Bush's performance, with 48 percent disapproving.

• Shocking admission: NBC reported today that the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows the "race is tied even though Kerry has received mostly positive media coverage since selecting Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., as his running mate, while the Bush White House has seen less-than-positive news on key fronts."

  "In a period that should be very good for the Democrats with the Edwards announcement, the president has more than held his own," said Democrat pollster Peter D. Hart, of NBC/Journal polling team Hart/Teeter. "Having said that, it still remains a contest which is exceptionally difficult for Bush. ... He continues to have an uphill walk."

  This survey shows the Bush-Cheney ticket supported by 47 percent of registered voters and Kerry-Edwards by 45 percent. Two percent backed Nader and his running mate, Peter Camejo.

  The margin of error: plus or minus 3 percentage points.

  The previous NBC/Journal poll, released June 30, had Bush at 45 percent, Kerry at 44 percent and Nader at 4 percent.

• The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, released Thursday, showed 47 percent of likely voters were for Kerry, 46 percent for Bush and 4 percent for Nader. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. With just Kerry and Bush, the numbers were 49 and 47.

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[Paul_B]

> NBC Admits Biased Pro-Kerry Media Fail to Hurt Bush in Polls

There you go again, Carl. They would admit no such thing. They would almost monolithically contend that the news flow just happened to be positive for Kerry and negative for Bush, and that media bias had nothing to do with it.

[SunkenCiv]

It said 51 percent approved of Bush's performance, with 48 percent disapproving.

And that's even with the presumed bias in the polling. What that signifies is, Dims are party-above-all, single party state advocates.

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