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NYT/CBS propaganda, er “poll”, is a lie

I just had a flashback to “My Cousin Vinny” where Gambini says “Everything that guy just said was bull$h#t.  Thank you.”  Here is a link to the analysis, which you must read.  Excerpt:

This is what propaganda looks like:

Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind [72%] one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Bruce Kesler points out that — in traditional NYT/CBS fashion — the sample is badly skewed:

According to the actual poll data, of the 73% of respondents who said they voted in 2008 only 34% voted for McCain and 66% for Obama. The actual vote was 48% McCain.

This is a good example of why reading a poll is as much art as science, because the first problem is the percentage who say they voted in the 2008 election. In reality, no more than 62% of eligible voters cast ballots last year. Accordingly, the poll has sampled a lot of adults who were ineligible to vote… or, as often happens, respondents lied about voting. In such cases, the lie tends to skew in favor of the winner.

Fortunately, at least for the time being, it looks like Oprompter doesn’t have the votes to pass that socialist piece of garbage down our throats.  But that may change after the ABC infomercial runs (without rebuttals, paid or otherwise).

Nope…no liberal media bias!

June 22, 2009 Posted by crushliberalism | health care, media bias, Obama, polls | 6 Comments