Posted on 04/23/2014 9:50:44 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Well, that was fast.
When your humble correspondent first read the New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation poll this morning showing incumbent Mark Pryor suddenly surging into a ten point lead over challenger Tom Cotton in the Arkansas Senate race, my suspicious antenna immediately sensed something was wrong with the way the poll was conducted. However, I figured the Times wouldn't be so unsubtle as to make it easy to detect how erroneous the results were and that only polling experts would be able to dig through the reams of stats in order to point out the errors. I was wrong. Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard quickly and easily found out just how ridiculously wrong the poll was and proclaimed, Why the New York Times Poll Is Bogus. First let us read the Times triumphantly proclaiming the big Pryor lead:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
That’s your Senate Majority Leader, America.
Nowhere in any of those speeches did Reid mention his own multi-bilionaire political sugar daddy, Tom Steyer, who’s pledged $100 million help elect Democrats. Nope, only conservatives try to “buy our democracy,” or something. Meanwhile, Reid and his deep-pocketed liberal super PAC are being raked over the coals by fact-checkers for a series of lie-filled ads running against Republicans. Left-leaning Politifact rates an attack on vulnerable Sen. Mark Pryor’s opponent “false,” while the Washington Post awards Four Pinocchios to a separate spot running to help Sen, Mary Landrieu in Louisiana:
This is the third time in a month that the Fact Checker has given Four Pinocchios to an ad sponsored by Senate Majority PAC. Thats a pretty dreadful track record, and does little for the organizations credibility more than six months before the midterm elections.
Indeed. One fun fact noted by WaPo: Senate Majority PAC has been heavily funded by...”out of state billionaires.” National Journal’s Ron Fournier is disgusted with Reid, and says that the media should be ashamed of themselves if they let the Nevada Senator get away with his string of lies:
Friendly reminder: Harry Reid has received Koch cash through a lobbyist, and his second in command hauled in a direct contribution, for which he thanked the Kochs with a signed letter.
Cotton is a sure fire GOP-e.
He is an estaishment candidate if there ever was one.
He wrote letters when he was at Harvard praising Bill and hill...
He fought against Ted Cruz efforts to defund obamacare
He supported obummer going into Syria...
Indeed! Mark "Flop Sweat" Pryor said that Tom Cotton's military service ... "gave him a sense of entitlement". Here's Tom Cotton showing who he is by how he responded to the slander ...
Lots of people write things in college. Pryor still would support Clinton.
Believe ANYTHING Bill Kristol says at your peril.
Who are the Times trying to demoralize with this suspicious poll? I’m not sure there are any Cotton supporters who read the Times. However, they may watch broadcasts or cable shows on which these suspicious numbers will be repeated, I suppose.
Jon Steward will receive this poll and tell his audience, “Mark Pryor is winning, neener-neener-neee-nerrr!” And then, he’ll play clips of FOX News talking heads, carefully edited to make them sound stupid, as usual.
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