CNN polls are more honest...

[Stop_the_War]

and reflect the real views of the American people.

For example, this poll asking whether you approve of Bush's SS proposals.

31% yes
69% no

http://www.cnn.com/
^^ the Quickvote poll is down at the bottom right of the page

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. What I don't understand is why CNN............

is reaching out to the right (ie.Fox) when it is obvious, when you look at their poll data, that they have a progressive audience. At least online, the responses to their polls show that a majority of the voters are anti shrub.
I don't get it.

[KharmaTrain]

2. Honest compared to???

Right after the SOTU, this network was out with another Gallup/GOOP poll that claimed a high approval rating for the speech and then claimed it as a triumph. They did the same about the sham elections last weekend...using their polling (as they did in the elections) to justify their right wing coverage and spin on events.

It wasn't until several blogs pointed out that 75% or more of the respondents were Repugnicans that CNNservative backed off and admitted their poll was biased in favor of Repugnicans. They barely mentioned the fact that a vast majority of Democrats either didn't want to respond to their poll or said they didn't watch. This wasn't the results the CNNservative corporate masters wanted out.

Remember, it was CNNservative that kept wiping it's survey boards clean during the debates last year when Kerry's total were way too high. I'll pass on anything this network says or does. It has zero credibility. Most trusted name in news? My ass!

[Stop_the_War]

7. I was just saying their polls were more honest compared to other networks

Fox News clearly rigs their online polls. CNN does not.

[slackmaster]

9. How can you tell what is rigged and what is not?

:shrug:

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[slackmaster]

3. There is NOTHING honest or scientific about any online "poll"

In which participants select themselves. The results are invariably meaningless garbage, often the result of opposing camps of people who feel strongly one way or another deliberately "freeping" or "un-freeping" to make it appear that their views reflect the majority of the population at large.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Unless We Knew. . .

. . .that everyone had a computer, was on-line and some already determined fraction and demographic visited a website, there is no way to use these data scientifically. (I'm agreeing with you, slack.)

There may be a day when the use of computers to log onto newssites becomes so ubiquitous that formulas can be developed to use these data to draw valid inferences.

That day is not, however, today.
The Professor

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[indepat]

5. 31% to 69%: about what the vote should have been on November 2nd

[slackmaster]

8. The fact that you agree with the result doesn't make a poll valid

If it makes you feel better to think so, that is your prerogative.