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CaseyJones
01-01-2014, 03:27 PM
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/31/obama-pollster-reporters-should-stop-covering-polls-in-2014/


After a year of seeing President Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the president’s pollster is offering a strikingly candid and pessimistic New Year’s resolution.

Reporters should go the next “year without reporting any public polling data,” Joel Benenson, president and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, said.

His comments were made to reporter Mike Allen, who published them in his daily “Politico Playbook” morning newsletter on Tuesday.

Benenson explained that he thinks the polling often reported by news organizations lacks the proper context.

Asked his New Year’s resolution: “Here’s one — with a variation, if mine is too extreme: Go one year without reporting any public polling data.”

“Rationale: Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.”

Benenson offered an alternative if “this is too strict.”

“Go one year without reporting any public polling data that doesn’t provide in an in-depth analysis of the underlying dynamics that are truly shaping the data,” he said.

If reporters actually did forgo reporting on the president’s polling data for a year, the next time the public would hear about Obama’s approval numbers would be after the 2014 midterms.

According to Wall Street Journal/NBC news polling, Obama’s job approval fell from 52 percent at the start of the year to 43 percent today.

lol

Dr.3D
01-01-2014, 03:43 PM
“Here’s one — with a variation, if mine is too extreme: Go one year without reporting any public polling data.”
Yeah, how about we wait till 2015 and then do that one year thing?

angelatc
01-01-2014, 03:46 PM
Better yet, only report on the GOP approval ratings.

Occam's Banana
01-01-2014, 03:47 PM
I have a much better & more productive idea: let's tar and feather every public pollster in the country - and then run them all out on rails.

We can start with Joel Benenson ...

Origanalist
01-01-2014, 04:31 PM
I have a much better & more productive idea: let's tar and feather every public pollster in the country - and then run them all out on rails.

We can start with Joel Benenson ...

Do we have to stop with the pollsters??? :confused:

Carson
01-01-2014, 04:51 PM
Polls!

What are the point to still having polls when the election results are being released before the elections are held (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/09/oops-azerbaijan-released-election-results-before-voting-had-even-started/)? Didn't we see that happen several times the last cycle...

Same lame excuses used over and over;

"The data were quickly recalled. Initially, the official story was that the app's developer had mistakenly sent out the 2008 election results as part of a test. But that's a bit flimsy, given that the released totals show the candidates from this week, not from 2008."

and then there was this.


Speaker John Boehner, "The Ayes Have It" Professional Liar


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFjczLKM4JY

DamianTV
01-01-2014, 05:04 PM
Penn and Teller Defend Ron Paul vs. Luntz and Fox News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If9EWDB_zK4

Occam's Banana
01-01-2014, 05:23 PM
Do we have to stop with the pollsters??? :confused:

Baby steps, baby steps ... ;)

HOLLYWOOD
01-01-2014, 07:22 PM
Politics/Pollsters/Polls...

Forgot the last "P"

PROPAGANDA


All the polling games in America are rigged... it's just another form of propaganda by the Money Masters

Tod
01-01-2014, 09:44 PM
We wouldn't want people to know how others feel about things; keep us in the dark, make us feel as though there must be something wrong with us if we don't like what he is doing.

CPUd
01-02-2014, 03:14 AM
It's not so much the polls being rigged as it it the people who respond to them.

tod evans
01-02-2014, 06:06 AM
Polling is simply one method used to see how well the propaganda is working..

That polls can then be used as propaganda themselves is just a bonus.

RonPaulFanInGA
01-02-2014, 09:35 AM
It's not so much the polls being rigged as it it the people who respond to them.

But they're usually pretty close to being accurate, overall. So what's it matter who responds to them if the sample gives a result that is close to reality?

erowe1
01-02-2014, 10:21 AM
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/31/obama-pollster-reporters-should-stop-covering-polls-in-2014/



lol

The problem is that some people won't cooperate.

We're gonna need a law for this.

jtap
01-02-2014, 10:54 AM
Penn and Teller Defend Ron Paul vs. Luntz and Fox News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If9EWDB_zK4

Bullshit! is a sweet show.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to DamianTV again.