The Times, They Are A-Slanting

The Times, They Are A-Slanting - According to Dick Morris, the NY Times polls that purport to show slipping public support for invading Iraq are worse than slanted - they're dishonest:

But take a close look at the poll: The phrasing of the questions is so slanted and biased that it amounts to journalistic "push polling" - the use of "objective" polling to generate a predetermined result, and so vindicate a specific point of view.

It was just such polling that led the Democratic Party astray over the summer and played an important role in catalyzing their (politically suicidal) criticism of Bush over Iraq. Now the Times returns with another poll, on the verge of Congress' vote on a use-of-force resolution, to suggest that voters see the economy as a bigger issue than Iraq.

Read the piece - it goes into specifics about the questions the Times poll asked.

Connect the dots from there.

Posted by Mitch at October 8, 2002 12:40 PM