Bogus Polls & Frontloading Trolls…
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Is anyone else as sick of the mainstream media as I am? I mean I know they are desperate to see Obama win the Presidency, but why don’t they just be honest about it, & change their names to like, The Washington Obama Post, & ABC = “All Barack Communications”, & MSNBC which now seems to stand for: “McCain Should Not Be Campaining.
Today Steve Gill reported that the Washington post poll released yesterday had been ridiculously front loaded with Democrat respondents. A look into the poll’s details confirm this. The media is trying to steer this election, just like they did in 2000 when Bush had Florida, but before the polls were even closed & all the voters had arrived, they called the state for Al Gore. What they did could have caused many voters with radios on to turn their cars around & go home instead of waiting in traffic & lines for a lost cause (as reported by CNN). It was borderline criminal.
CNN forced to make retraction live on the air. A video CNN wishes they could forget:
Steve Gill writes:
Now those of us who actually know something about politics are not easily deceived by these bogus polls. For example, if you will scroll down to question #901 in the poll you will find that the internal poll information reveals that the Democrats had a ten point edge in the makeup of those polled! 38% of the respondents said they are Democrats, versus just 28% Republican…yet Obama only had a nine point lead?!?!?! Just a month ago the poll over-surveyed Democrats by 13% among likely voters!! This thing is simply intended to bolster the propaganda that Obama has turned things around.Oh, and among the so-called independents polled, when asked towards which political party they lean the numbers were about 18% in favor of the DEMOCRATS. Check out question #904.
Weighting Polls is a common practice (unfortunately), but the Main Stream Media has a history of front loading polls for Democrats so badly that it’s impossible to hide their indiscretions.
Poll weighting is based on assumptions & hypothesis about past trends in voting, & is a dangerous game. For example pollsters may decide that although they are polling 35% Democrats, & 35% Republicans, other data suggests to them that about 6% less Democrats (a hypothetical for instance) tend to participate in polling questionnaires at lets say the “Shopping Mall”, so the pollsters artificially ad a 6% advantage for the Democrats to make up for that. There’s usually no way to predict for certain whether or not these assumptions will be right or wrong in a given election cycle. For another pretty good explanation of how & why polls get weighted, click here.
These are just a few examples of how our media relies on the fact that many people either don’t have time to, or care to look into the accuracy of the data they are receiving. It’s also my opinion that we’ve developed a culture where most people don’t want to get behind a team they know is probably going to lose, because they’ve been conditioned to feel that it’s an exercise in futility. But those of us who have played any competitive sport have been trained to play with all our heart until the final buzzer sounds. We don’t quit because the opposing team scored a few garbage goals early on.
Obama has certainly scored a few “Garbage Goals” with the public with the help of some dirty referees known as the Main Stream Media, who has time & time again proven themselves to be unreliable, dishonest, elitist, & extremely biased.
Then there’s the “push polling“ that is as equally devious, but that’s another related subject.
Do yourself & your country a favor this election season. Take these polls that are done by media outlets with a grain of salt, because they haven’t changed their agenda any, & they are often doing a hatchet job on the data you end up seeing.
~Dan Lee
