The Power of Polling

Bryan Griffin

According to my survey, shown here, Obama would probably win the election in November. Unbeknownst to you, the viewer, I only asked three people. I also asked three people in a liberally inclined demographic: on a college campus. Does this accurately reflect the feeling of the American people? While the answer is clear, the liberal media still pull this trick all of the time.

Take any introductory statistics class, and you will realize the subtleties of bias that creep into every survey and poll. Like proponents of Global Warming, those seeking the answers slant their information collection methods to match their opinions, and towards how they want the outcome to show.

Everything the mainstream media does is an agenda push. While the one casualty of the day makes the front page, the success of the troop surge lands on page 14. Whenever a situation is presented, it’s first prefaced with “under harsh criticism for the last attempt” or something or another to push you to a pre derived notion about a topic, especially when covering a conservative politician or issue. I say this as a warning, please take mainstream news polls with a grain of salt, because that’s about as much professionalism as is behind them.

When Good Morning America asked Cheney how he felt about the polls that showed more Americans against the war than for it, he had the right response. “So”?

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