Typical American participating in the latest CBS/New York Times phone poll.
There’s nothing funnier than actually looking at the “internals” of liberal polls. Because they often reveal truths the summaries gloss over.
For example, here’s what the summary of the latest CBS/New York Times says:
Americans have grown more optimistic about the economy and the direction of the country in the 11 weeks since President Obama was inaugurated, suggesting that he is enjoying some success in his critical task of rebuilding the nation’s confidence, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
It continued:
(J)ust 31 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest in the 25 years the question has been asked in New York Times/CBS News polls.
Now here’s what the summary didn’t tell you. Look deeper into the poll at the demographic breakdown of who was actually questioned and you quickly see how skewed the results are. Who participated in the poll?
39% Democrats
23% Republicans
30% Independents
Say what? 69.6% more Democrats than Republicans? President Obama only got 53% of the vote. In the recent House election in upstate New York a Democrat only got 50% of the vote in a Democrat district.
So how about if you make this closing paragraph the new opening paragraph of the New York Times/CBS poll summary:
“The latest fraudulent CBS/New York Times poll kept questioning Democrats until we got the answers to line up with the story we had already written. Here are the results of that bogus poll.”
Source: TimesWatch.org
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Are you retarded. They called random people and that was the percentage that it polled out to. What do you suggest they do call and equal number of democrats republicans and independents?
Really thick man.
LOL
UM the gop have lost tons of people that will admit they are goprs.
this poll was done randomly.
the info you provide is only what the random respondants claimed for political leanings.
what you are showing is how small the gop has gotten with all the hyper rhetoric of the right chasing off the moderates.
obama only got 53% of the vote? well your article shows that 39% of the people are dems.. I’m not sure why you are tryign to compare teh 69% number with the 53% number as they measure totally differnt things.
If you want to compare it to something.. compare it to officail tallies of how many goprs voted for obama.
Otheriwse you need to learn math and science as much as i need to learn spelling.
Sorry, gentlemen, but you’re both wrong. Neither of you have the slightest idea how polling is conducted. Here’s more information from TimesWatch.org:
“Intriguingly, the last page of the CBS copy of the poll, but not the Times’, breaks out the demographic numbers further, showing the “weighted” sample (which is where the poll got the 39%-23% breakdown) but also showing the “unweighted,” raw number sample (showing the Democrats with a more modest 35%-26.5% lead in respondents).
“The secret “weighting” ingredients used by the Times and CBS somehow managed to double the lead of Democratic respondents from the raw 8.5 points to a yawning 16 points. The traditional gap for CBS-NYT polls is around nine points in favor of the Democrats.
“Another indication of possible over-sampling of Democrats: Among respondents who voted, Obama won their presidential vote by a massive 18 percentage points over John McCain, 43%-25%. The actual popular vote result was 53%-46% in favor of Obama, only a seven-point win.”
Thank you editor for straightening that out!
I think the “cow” needs to learn math, science, and spelling. How can that animal expect us to take its word when it can’t even spell words? I don’t know…
I hate polls that have “No Opinion,” never really understood why its absolutely necessary to include that in the calculation.
Typical CBS though. CBS needs to be thrown into the pile where I keep MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, and NBC…on the side of my curb waiting to be picked up.
I’m shocked, shocked, that the New York Times would print something slanted or biased, and pass it off as news. Shocked!