Posted on 10/03/2008 8:33:14 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
An astute commentator notes something about CNN's "poll" of VP debate previewers that on the one hand is utterly predictable given CNN's track record, yet it is still appalling: CNN declares that its poll finds Biden the winner, but CNN never discloses any information about who participated in the poll. This would be like asking people whether they liked the Red Sox or the Yankees and not revealing what percentage of phone calls were made to Boston versus New York. Without that information, the results are more than worthless - they are manipulative. CNN's headline deeclares that "Debate Poll Says Biden Won." CNN's "news analysis" also is headlined "Biden Wins Debate." Nowhere in either story does CNN reveal anything about its polling sample other than its size (611 people). CNN's poll stories of the presidential debate employed a respondent group in which Democrats were dramatically overrepresented, which predictably led to the result of Obama "winning" the debate.You can read CNN's poll stories here and here. The omissions in both should be glaring to anyone with even the slightest familiarity of how poll results should be reported. CNN deserves to be trusted on these matters about as much as Dan Rather deserves to be trusted with National Guard documents.
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I went to one poll last night and it would not accept my vote for Sarah Palin. Don’t remember which one it was.
Which highlighted words?
The only poll of any relevance takes place on Nov 4th.
The poll of 611 people where conducted within CNN employees.
CNN polled 7 Democrtas, 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat-leaning Independent.
It’s simple arithmetic but very reliable...
What difference does it make? The few people who still watch CNN were voting for Obama no matter what.
Click on the red “commentary...” above to link to the actual article.
It seemed like a race to be the first to spin the result.
Just like Solidad O'Brien did with “counting the hands” of CNN’s focus group.
Exactly right - CNN’s focus groups are about as objective as the “news” reported by Olbermann and Matthews on MSNBC!
Great poster! It’s no accident that CNN used to be called the “C(linton) N(ews) N(etwork); Now they’re in the tank for Obama. The only decisions their executive staff have to make are which lefty they will propagandize for.
Well, they may have done some outreach to broaden their base by including Olbermann and Matthews of MSNBC.
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