Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions [NYTimes/CBS]

New York Times ^ | 2/28/2010 | EL COOPER and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN

[Bikkuri]

Sadly... the dems aren’t intelligent enough to see past the talking points puked out by the LSm :/

[steelyourfaith]

This is obviously a deliberately inaccurate NYSlimes poll, with skewed sampling, and which flies in the face of the overwhelming political shift to conservatism that occurred at all levels of government all across the land in the election just three months ago. Nothing has changed. If anything the conservative movement has been energized by the actions of heroes like Governor Walker

How about the NYSlimes? The more the NYSlimes lies in vain attempt to credit the greedy union goons & thugs the more American people from the great middle look with disdain on the credibility of the NYSlimes, the more the NYSlimes readership continues to decline and the more revenue the NYSlimes continues to hemorrhage.

As Rush Limbaugh says: "Polls today are used to shape public opinion, not reflect it, pure and simple."

Limbaugh continues:

"'Asked how they would choose to reduce their state's deficits,' the Times adds, 'those polled preferred tax increases over benefit cuts for state workers by nearly two to one.'" Does anybody buy this? If this is the case, how in the heck did Walker win election?  How did the Republicans take over the Senate?  I mean, this is an out-and-out lie.  "How do you square these figures with the results of last November's elections, in which anti-tax, anti-deficit, anti-public-union forces swept to historic victories in federal and state elections across the country? Well, you can't, of course. The Times doesn't even ask this blindingly obvious question, let alone try to answer it. But if you read down to the seventh paragraph of the story, which is on page 17, not page 1, an answer emerges:

"'The nationwide telephone poll was conducted Feb. 24-27 with 984 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all adults. Of those surveyed, 20 percent said there was a union member in their household, and 25 percent said there was a public employee in their household.'" So, "Although less than 12 percent of the workforce is unionized today," and by the way, the private sector number is light eight.  "Although less than 12 percent of the workforce is unionized today 20 percent of the households in the survey had a union member. Although government workers are 17 percent of the workforce, 25 percent of the households surveyed had one living there. 

"In other words, the sample was wildly skewed toward the very people most likely to give the answers the Times was hoping to hear," but you have to read to page 17 to get that information.  So once again proving a bone of contention: Polls today are used to shape public opinion, not reflect it, pure and simple.