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jwhop
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posted January 09, 2006 01:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There is no end in sight of the Truth being told by the Ass--ociated Press.

Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006 1:23 p.m. EST
Congress, Surveillance Poll Oversampled Dems

GOP critics are hailing an Associated Press-Ipsos poll purporting to show that the public opposes both continued GOP control of Congress and the Bush administration's terrorist wiretapping program.

But it turns out that the AP-Ipsos sample used to answer both questions included far more Democrats than Republicans.

On Friday, a widely circulated AP report announced that a large plurality of Americans now favor a Democrat takeover of Congress [49 to 36 percent].

A follow-up AP story claimed that by a margin of 56 to 42 percent, Americans think it was wrong for President Bush to wiretap U.S.-based terrorists without a court warrant.

Readers howled when both AP reports turned up on NewsMax, pointing out links that show the poll was heavily stacked with Democrats. A quick check of the Ipsos web site turned up the telltale evidence in the poll's second question.
Asked if they lean either "strongly" or "moderately" to either the Democrat or Republican Party, 52 percent of Ipsos respondents identified themselves as Democrats. Just 40 percent called themselves Republican.

The Ipsos survey numbers, including those revealing that the sample was heavily biased against Republicans, can be viewed at:
http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/client/act_dsp_pdf.cfm?name=mr060106-3topline.pdf&id=2928


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/8/132501.shtml

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LibraSparkle
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posted January 09, 2006 01:00 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
C'mon J...

We all know quite well that The Press (Associated, News Max, Faux, Buzzflash... whatever) all have their own agendas. They are all biased. We get very little real news in this country.

All media should be questioned. Their only MO is to get more viewers/readers/sheeple.

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Rainbow~
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posted January 09, 2006 05:43 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
S H E E P L E

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BlueRoamer
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posted January 09, 2006 08:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BlueRoamer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Did you know that the AP was created during the mexican-american war because the news at the time travelled so slowly?

And hey, much of the media may be liberal, but the radical right holds most of the legislative, judicial, and of course executive positions, so it balances out.

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AcousticGod
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posted January 14, 2006 03:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I see you're starting to understand about polls. Good for you!

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