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Example of how media distorts surveys
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:41 am
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:41 am
Listening to radio news this morning on the polls. It went like this:
"Trump is ahead in the polls but Biden's main issue of abortion could lead him to victory. Abortion is legal in about half of the states but the vast majority, over 70% of those surveyed said they wanted a nationwide policy on abortion."
That means 35% might favor nationwide legal abortion and 35% might favor nationwide ban on abortion. But they report it as a win for Biden.
"Trump is ahead in the polls but Biden's main issue of abortion could lead him to victory. Abortion is legal in about half of the states but the vast majority, over 70% of those surveyed said they wanted a nationwide policy on abortion."
That means 35% might favor nationwide legal abortion and 35% might favor nationwide ban on abortion. But they report it as a win for Biden.
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Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:43 am to Zach
Can't remember who said it, but "How ever much you hate the Media, it isn't enough"....
Posted on 3/28/24 at 10:00 am to Zach
All polls over sample Democrats by 10% to 15% in the ones that will release their demographic data. They always show the independents being about a third of those polled which is absurd. Those always lean Democrat so its another way for the media to appear to be impartial while actually being very biased.
Posted on 3/28/24 at 11:15 am to tigersbb
For some reason independents are seemingly incapable of recognizing the extreme leftwing bias in the media and tend to lean Democrat because of that. It amazes me the independents and libertarians on my facebook feed that parrot Democrat talking points and post anti Trump propaganda from left wing sources.
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