Ignore Media and Polls - this article explains why...

Bill · 2004-09-18, 05:11 PM

To put any faith in the big media is a fool's bet.

Read an interesting srticle today from a link on metafilter about the recent GALLUP polls and how they have been misrepresenting results by predefining the poll's assumed numbers....

I assume leftcoaster is somehwat left wing, but maybe it just refers to the left coast of the US. Maybe that's the same thing.

They do a numbers breakdown in this article:

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/002806.html

"Because the Gallup Poll, despite its reputation, assumes that this November 40% of those turning out to vote will be Republicans, and only 33% will be Democrat. You read that correctly. I asked Gallup, who have been very courteous to my requests, to send me this morning their sample breakdowns by party identification for both their likely and registered voter samples they use in these national and I suspect their state polls. This is what I got back this morning:"

"The real problem here is that Gallup is spreading a false impression of this race. Through its 1992 partnership with two international media outlets (CNN and USA Today), Gallup is telling voters and other media by using badly-sampled polls that the GOP and its candidates are more popular than they really are. Given that Gallup’s CEO is a GOP donor, this should not be a surprise. "

2004-09-18, 05:11 PM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Ignore Media and Polls - this article explains why... To put any faith in the big media is a fool's bet. Read an interesting srticle today from a link on metafilter about the recent GALLUP polls and how they have been misrepresenting results by predefining the poll's assumed numbers.... I assume leftcoaster is somehwat left wing, but maybe it just refers to the left coast of the US. Maybe that's the same thing. They do a numbers breakdown in this article: http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/002806.html "Because the Gallup Poll, despite its reputation, assumes that this November 40% of those turning out to vote will be Republicans, and only 33% will be Democrat. You read that correctly. I asked Gallup, who have been very courteous to my requests, to send me this morning their sample breakdowns by party identification for both their likely and registered voter samples they use in these national and I suspect their state polls. This is what I got back this morning:" "The real problem here is that Gallup is spreading a false impression of this race. Through its 1992 partnership with two international media outlets (CNN and USA Today), Gallup is telling voters and other media by using badly-sampled polls that the GOP and its candidates are more popular than they really are. Given that Gallup’s CEO is a GOP donor, this should not be a surprise. "