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mystic, thanks for your comments . . .
. . . but a poll that takes a partisan stance in how its queations are framed are going to be biased by nature. By your standards, an audience poll conducted by Rush Limbaugh or Scoop's favorite, Sean Hannity, with a question along the lines of "Would you support or not support Democrats breaking Senate rules by refusing to allow the Senate to conduct its business of voting on President Bush's judicial nominations?" is unbiased. You and I both know that's nonsense. Same for the Post poll.
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 29, 2005 at 7:25 PM
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fwmystic sorry you are disappointed but all papers do this
and we all look at the polls and write about them when they suit our agenda.
For instance if a paper asked the question this way, "Do you think either political party should be allowed to.........."
But when they ask it this way, "Do you think the republicans......." (or put in any party) that is how it gets twisted, at least as I see it.
posted by
scoop
on April 27, 2005 at 8:42 AM
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I'm in total agreement.
posted by
Burly
on April 27, 2005 at 8:17 AM
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I'm dissapointed in you, Scoop!
"Would you support or oppose changing Senate rules to make it easier for the Republicans to confirm Bush's judicial nominees?"
How is this misleading? How does this show bias?
Is it because there's more than four words in the sentence and therefore bias against red-state Republicans?
posted by
fwmystic
on April 27, 2005 at 8:05 AM
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Guess what, I agree
Most newspaper polls use "leading" questions to fit their agenda.
posted by
scoop
on April 27, 2005 at 6:11 AM
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