A stunning CBS poll which claimed 85 percent of Americans embraced Joe Biden’s joint address speech last night has turned out to be a fraud, with pollster YouGov surveying just 169 Republicans as part of the broader 943 people polled.
Seriously, I understand normalcy bias and believing 'it can't happen here'.... but honestly, anyone you meet who STILL believes the government and/or the media, just need to be launched off this planet.
I can't believe the network that could have made Sharyl Attkisson their evening news anchor but preferred Scott Pelley would have done something this flagrantly stupid.
They'd have a tough time finding that many Republicans in DC. or NYC. Those places are so overwhelmingly liberal, and they think the whole country is that way.
I have learned to never trust any polls. They are just so ripe for abuse, by the way the questions are asked, by the group polled, even such things as the time of day that the calls are made to ask the questions. For example, more married non working women are home at 10 AM than men, so certain questions, such as gun control, are biased when done that way. They can be designed to give you any result that you wish, which don't think for a second the pollsters are not aware of, and take advantage of, for the people who hire them. I didn't watch the speech simply because I could have told what would be said beforehand.
Exactly. First, they probably just randomly selected names from DC listings. And who is stupid enough to answer calls from numbers you don't recognize, these days? Or they pulled names off of a DNC donor list.
Not new. In a senior seminar back in ... um? ... 1978 one classmate was hired by an Alexandria survey company. They did phone surveys and had a high response rate in those days. For you youngsters a phone exchange (the 3 numbers following the area code) had specific geographic limits. An exchange on Route 1 south of the beltway was mostly military or DoD personnel thus conservative. Exchanges in downtown Alexandria and Arlington were more liberal. By limiting calls to certain exchanges you could skew the results. Classmate asked his boss "Is this honest?" Boss's answer: "Son, we're in the business of selling surveys. If the client doesn't get the results they like they'll go to someone else." Never trusted surveys since.
Lemme tell you about one pollster who called me a few years back. The details may be skewed but I'll relate the gist of it. The pollster was a woman with a foreign, possibly German accent. I first asked who consigned the poll. She wouldn't answer that. She got the the first question.
Would you prefer a income tax increase or a gas tax increase to bring down the deficit?
Neither - what congress needs to do is stop overspending
That's not an answer.
That is the ONLY answer.
I cannot accept that.
Why not?
That is not one of my answers.
So you don't want a solution. You just want to justify raising taxes.
I can't answer that. I'll put you down as 'undecided'.
That is not correct. I AM decided. The answer is to address the spending issue.
Well I can't use that.
Why am I not surprised?
Every poll - EVERY poll is crafted to elicit the desired answers. Then they carefully choose the audience leaning most favorably towards their end. Polls are propaganda, but then we all know that.
Careful there, boys. Distrusting the news media has got to be some sort de facto hate crime.
Look at it this way: criticizing the NBA is racist on account of the disproportionate over-representation of Blacks in the NBA vs the general population.
Same principle applies to the news. You’re better than that. You must educate yourself and stop the hatred.
you know it is false because there was not even 100 people watching to answer the questions. The truth is not found anywhere near the democratic party or its policies.
BULL SHIT.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteMore than 85% of Americans had better things to do than watch Biden last night.
They don't even try to hide it
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I understand normalcy bias and believing 'it can't happen here'.... but honestly, anyone you meet who STILL believes the government and/or the media, just need to be launched off this planet.
ReplyDeleteyou just can’t get rid of everyone
DeleteAlthough it would make for a very nice start
I suppose you don't work out once because you know you won't do it more than once, or try eating healthier because it's too hard as well.
DeleteDon't say something can't be done until it's tried, but say it would be nice, like a retarded plan-truster.
And 28 of the Rinos approved it or some of the democrats voted twice
ReplyDeleteDaryl
I can't believe the network that could have made Sharyl Attkisson their evening news anchor but preferred Scott Pelley would have done something this flagrantly stupid.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding.
Uncle Walter is rolling in his grave.
ReplyDelete"The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong won the Tet offensive!" Uncle Walter is probably not rolling in his grave.
DeleteFuck Uncle Walter, bootlicking commie.
DeleteThe author of this article will probably win the 'Dan Rather Truth in Journalism' award.
DeleteSeriously.. there is a DRTiJ award.
Fucked up world...
Probably all the Republicans they could find that watched it.
ReplyDeleteThey'd have a tough time finding that many Republicans in DC. or NYC. Those places are so overwhelmingly liberal, and they think the whole country is that way.
DeleteEither the poll was rigged like the 2020 election or the general population is dumber than I thought.
ReplyDeleteDear CBS:
ReplyDeleteYou need to talk to people OUTSIDE of your corporate headquarters building for these "polls".
BINGO! And outside their gated communities, too.
DeleteYep, and the same people polled will tell you I have a 10 inch dick!
ReplyDelete@luis
I have learned to never trust any polls. They are just so ripe for abuse, by the way the questions are asked, by the group polled, even such things as the time of day that the calls are made to ask the questions. For example, more married non working women are home at 10 AM than men, so certain questions, such as gun control, are biased when done that way.
ReplyDeleteThey can be designed to give you any result that you wish, which don't think for a second the pollsters are not aware of, and take advantage of, for the people who hire them.
I didn't watch the speech simply because I could have told what would be said beforehand.
Exactly. First, they probably just randomly selected names from DC listings. And who is stupid enough to answer calls from numbers you don't recognize, these days?
DeleteOr they pulled names off of a DNC donor list.
Not new.
ReplyDeleteIn a senior seminar back in ... um? ... 1978 one classmate was hired by an Alexandria survey company. They did phone surveys and had a high response rate in those days. For you youngsters a phone exchange (the 3 numbers following the area code) had specific geographic limits. An exchange on Route 1 south of the beltway was mostly military or DoD personnel thus conservative. Exchanges in downtown Alexandria and Arlington were more liberal. By limiting calls to certain exchanges you could skew the results. Classmate asked his boss "Is this honest?" Boss's answer: "Son, we're in the business of selling surveys. If the client doesn't get the results they like they'll go to someone else." Never trusted surveys since.
This poll must have been run by Dominion Voting Systems.
ReplyDeleteNo it was the guy who loaded the pistol magazine.
DeleteI watched while playing on the computer. I just wanted to see Biden create some new memes and Pelosi/ Kamatoe doze off.
ReplyDeleteThe news media is more like Tass or Pravda every day!
ReplyDeleteLemme tell you about one pollster who called me a few years back. The details may be skewed but I'll relate the gist of it. The pollster was a woman with a foreign, possibly German accent. I first asked who consigned the poll. She wouldn't answer that. She got the the first question.
ReplyDeleteWould you prefer a income tax increase or a gas tax increase to bring down the deficit?
Neither - what congress needs to do is stop overspending
That's not an answer.
That is the ONLY answer.
I cannot accept that.
Why not?
That is not one of my answers.
So you don't want a solution. You just want to justify raising taxes.
I can't answer that. I'll put you down as 'undecided'.
That is not correct. I AM decided. The answer is to address the spending issue.
Well I can't use that.
Why am I not surprised?
Every poll - EVERY poll is crafted to elicit the desired answers. Then they carefully choose the audience leaning most favorably towards their end. Polls are propaganda, but then we all know that.
Careful there, boys. Distrusting the news media has got to be some sort de facto hate crime.
ReplyDeleteLook at it this way: criticizing the NBA is racist on account of the disproportionate over-representation of Blacks in the NBA vs the general population.
Same principle applies to the news. You’re better than that. You must educate yourself and stop the hatred.
you know it is false because there was not even 100 people watching to answer the questions. The truth is not found anywhere near the democratic party or its policies.
ReplyDelete