Posted by
42jeff on Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:00:55 AM
Polls Shmolls
It seems everybody's got a poll these days. And with the coming election and the ever-present media bias, you can predict what they're going to say without even having to see them. Polls are not as objective as the pollsters want you to believe they are.
After the three presidential debates and the VP debate in jotting down what I thought the spreads were going to be on the three major polls. Imagine my suprise when I was pretty close on them. CNN, MSNBC, AP you can pretty much be assured they're going to give Obama/Biden about a 15% spread every where you look. FoxNews only gives about a four to six point spread. Brietbart, BBC and most international groups tend to be about 10%.
When you look at these things you have to take into consideration the source. You KNOW the slant of most of the major networks so the results of their polls are really no suprise. Sure, if you say you took a poll of a thousand people...but they were all in California...or the Northeast, you know it's going to be liberally slanted. Take a poll in the midwest and it will go back the other way.
I hope with the coming election, people will look away from the polls and vote with their minds instead of what they think the rest of the country is going to do.