{"id":4974,"date":"2009-06-24T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2009-06-24T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:30:35","slug":"nytimes-learns-from-the-minnesota-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes<\/i> Learns From “The Minnesota Poll”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in Minnesota, we – at least those of us that pay attention – have long known that the “Minnesota Poll” can be counted on as nothing more than a reliable shill for the DFL.\u00a0 The MNPoll always <\/em>overpolls DFL voters, and strips that fact out of its headlines, which – especially on the eve of elections – always <\/em>show DFL and Democrat candidates polling much higher than they turn out in the final polling (at least in contested elections where things are close).\u00a0 One has to suspect that their reason is to drive down Republican turnout, although obviously they’ll never cop to it.<\/p>\n

But it must work; the NYTimes <\/em>is borrowing the trick<\/a>\u00a0to shill for Obamacare.<\/p>\n

I saw the first polling results\u00a0 – in which Americans purportedly support Obamacare by a crushing margin, even as Obama’s polling descends to\u00a0merely human levels and\u00a0dissatisfaction with his economic program mounts\u00a0– and thought “check the polling numbers”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No surprise:<\/p>\n

Out of 895 respondents, 24 percent were Republicans, 38 percent Democrats, and 38 percent were independents, according to a June 20 release from CBS News.\u00a0While the release says the sampling was conducted at random, those numbers are significantly below the 32.6 percent who identify\u00a0themselves\u00a0as Republican according to a May survey from the nonpartisan Rasmussen Reports.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Times\/CBS poll said 48 percent of respondents had voted for Obama, versus 25 percent for McCain, a nearly two-to-one advantage for Obama supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Had those results been reflected in the November presidential election, Obama would have garnered 66 percent of the vote to McCain\u2019s 34 percent, Conway, president & CEO of \u201cthe polling company,\u201d told CNSNews.com.
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\n\u201cWas the vote 66-34? You tell me,\u201d Conway said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, Mr. Conway.\u00a0 It was not.<\/p>\n

And no – no media bias here.\u00a0 Why ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in Minnesota, we – at least those of us that pay attention – have long known that the “Minnesota Poll” can be counted on as nothing more than a reliable shill for the DFL.\u00a0 The MNPoll always overpolls DFL voters, and strips that fact out of its headlines, which – especially on the eve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}