More poll trutherism
More poll trutherism
Conservatives debate: Is the liberal media purposely or simply accidentally making Romney look like he's losing?
BY ALEX PAREENE
I’m not sure it’ll amount to anything, but today seems to have marked the birth of the sophisticated version of the elaborate liberal media polling conspiracy fantasy.
The silly version (let’s call it “poll trutherism,” which I think Dave Weigel sorta coined) broke out earlier this week, once Rick Perry discovered the genius that is UnSkewedPolls.com. And the silly version is a good enough piece of propaganda for the hackier elements of the conservative media sphere, from the Washington Times to TownHall to WND to Fox & Friends.
In this version, the liberal media purposefully skews the polls, making the (secretly winning) Romney campaign appear to be unable to gain ground on Obama, in order to demoralize Republicans, thus ensuring Obama’s reelection. (Even Jim Geraghty is highlighting some conspiratorial claims from a Republican pollster involving Democrats somehow “lobbying” major pollsters to undersample Republicans.)
At the Weekly Standard, Jay Cost weighs in with a much more rational take on the perhaps all the polls are for some reason — who can say — skewed to benefit Obama narrative. He thinks “many polls have, in my judgment, overestimated the Democrats’ standing right now,” but he is careful not to ascribe conspiratorial causes to this belief. He says it’s just that Romney shouldn’t be polling so far behind Obama when independents are evenly split everywhere.
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