Contact the media now re: poll spin.

[madmax]

Tell them you know what they're doing!

CNN spun poll numbers for Bush

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410180010

On October 18 on News from CNN, on-screen text falsely suggested that President George W. Bush's favorable rating had risen to 55 percent in multiple polls. Later, on CNN's Inside Politics, host Judy Woodruff selectively cited polls to assert that "the polls seem to be moving in President Bush's favor."

The on-screen text, which aired on News from CNN during a report by CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider, read, "Polls: Bush's favorability rating rose from 51% to 55%." But only one poll conducted in whole or in part since the conclusion of the debates, the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, shows Bush's favorable rating that high. A Washington Post tracking poll conducted October 12-14 gave Bush a 50 percent favorable rating, a TIME magazine poll conducted October 14-15 placed Bush's favorability at 49 percent, and RealClearPolitics.com reported that a Newsweek poll conducted October 14-15 rated Bush's favorability at 51 percent.

On Inside Politics, Woodruff gave an assessment of the presidential race by combining the results of five recent polls -- CNN/USA Today/Gallup, Newsweek, TIME magazine, ABC/Washington Post, and IBD/TIPP -- into a "poll of polls" of likely voters. According to that assessment, Bush leads Senator John Kerry 50 percent to 45 percent, leading Woodruff to ask, "What happened to that lift that John Kerry got from the debates?" Perhaps a similar assessment led The Note, the daily briefing from the ABC News political unit, to conclude that "By nearly every credible indication available, President Bush seems to have moved, post-debates, into a small but potentially meaningful lead over Senator Kerry."

But Woodruff and ABC neglected to consider three polls that show different results -- a Zogby poll conducted October 15-17 that showed Bush and Kerry each with 45 percent of the vote; Rasmussen's daily tracking poll from October 18 that puts the race even at 47 percent each; and a survey conducted October 14-16 by Democracy Corps (a nonprofit polling company whose principals are Democrats) that gave Kerry a 48 percent to 45 percent lead over Bush.

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[Shopaholic]

1. Come on DU--Kick this and let 'em know that we know what they're

up to and we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore, to borrow a phrase from one of my favorite movies.

[dave502d]

2. Done

Were going to get 15 days of this shit,I hate the right wing news.

[Shoeempress]

3. called CNN, and complained

[PretzelWarrior]

4. well, I just did the contact page for Inside Politics

called her a whore. Who cares if they sh!tcan my note? It felt good to tell them what I thought in unvarnished terms.

[madmax]

5. link for CNN contact

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?6


:kick:

[PerfectSage]

8. madmax: "link for CNN contact"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x816939

[madmax]

9. Damn - I keep forgetting about that great link!

Thanks Perfect - guess you are ;)

[Robeson]

6. Done, and everybody else needs to do this...

...a link and form to fill out is provided on the site, and you can quickly relay your opinion.

[PerfectSage]

7. Kick it.

Kick it. :kick:

Why doesn’t CNN do a story on voter suppression tactics? Oh sorry, your too busy helping steal another election for Bush. Ted Turner must be ashamed as hell at what CNN has turned into: A Selfserving Sanctimonious Sack of Shit News Network. I doubt it, if any SSSSNN employee has a shred of self respect and journalistic integrity left.

SSSSNN: The most trusted name in bullshit.

[Robeson]

13. Then Ted Turner....

....should have thought of this before he sold them out. He's not stupid. He doesn't get a pass on this, despite his obfuscations.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Done....here's my letter,

emailed to:
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Dear CNN,
Why are you only citing the polls that show Bush way ahead? I found many reliable polls that show a tie, and some with the trend of Kerry going up. You seem to feed the public the polls that you believe will allow a sway in public sentiments. I abhor this type of journalism. I respectfully protest your work in attempting to elect George Bush. Further, the Gallup poll used a sample of 34% Republican, 33% Democratic and 32% Independent. This is not representative of the "likely voter" demographics that went to the polls in 2000, and not representative of the current percentage breakdown of voters. In fact the demographics used favor George Bush. A News organization using flawed poll results to attempt to sway its viewers is a travesty to our democracy and should not be work deemed reasonable, balanced or fair.

Concerned Viewer,
XXX XXXXX

Reuters-Zogby Poll - Monday

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=604849§ion=news

The latest three-day tracking poll:

B K N Undec
Saturday-Monday: 45 45 1 7
Friday-Sunday: 45 44
Thursday-Saturday 48 44 (I think)

Bush down 3, Kerry up 1

"This is, as I have said before, the same kind of roller coaster ride we saw in 2000 with the lead changing back and forth and neither candidate able to open up any kind of lead," pollster John Zogby said.

* Bush 4% edge in suburbs
* Kerry comfortable lead in urban areas
* Tied in small cities
* Bush strong lead among rural voters
* Kerry now has 4% lead among Catholics

Electoral-vote.com has been posted above, here it is with his comments.

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Kerry 257
Bush 247

News from the Votemaster

Kerry's debate lift continues today as a new ARG poll in New Hampshire breaks the tie there and puts him ahead there 49% to 45%. The MoE is 4%, so this should still be considered a statistical tie. The few other state polls don't show much movement. On the state graphs, the lookback window for the regression lines has been dropped to 30 days on the grounds that July and August polls really don't matter much any more.

Here are the polls taken from the 14th (Thursday after the debate) until the 16th.

B K N
Tie 47-47-n- 10=14-16 Rasmussen
Kerry +3% 47-50-1 LV 10/14-16 Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
Bush +3% 49-46-1 RV 10/14-16 CNN/USA Today/Gallup
Bush +3% 49-46-1 A 10/14-16 CNN/USA Today/Gallup
Bush +8% 52-44-1 LV 10/14-16 CNN/USA Today/Gallup
Tie 46-46-4 RV 10/14-15 TIME Magazine
Tie 46-46-n RV 10/14-15 TIME Magazine
Bush +2% 48-46-3 LV 10/14-15 TIME Magazine
Tie 47-47-n LV 10/14-15 TIME Magazine
Bush +2% 48-46-1 RV 10/14-15 Newsweek
Bush +1% 48-47-n RV 10/14-15 Newsweek

NOTE: Which poll is a piece of sh**.
They are odd-man-out. Ignore the so-called 8 point lead.
It is Rove's attempt, through puppets, to stampede sheeple.
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LV = Likely Voters
RV = Registered Voters
A = All adults
Figures with "n" indicate a head to head (2-way) race, with a figure indicates N(ader's) percentage.

+Greenberb Quinian Rosner are pollsters for Democracy Corps.

Rasmussens figures for today:
Bush 47.5
Kerry 47.3
Other 2.3
Unsure 2.9

Electoral College:

EV | RCP | 2.004 | Rasmussen
Bush 257 | 254 | 252 | 213
Kerry 247 | 220 | 279 | 194

EV = http://www.electoral-vote.com
RCP = http://www.realclearpolitics.com
2.004 = http://www.2.004k.com
Rasmussen =
http//www.rasmussenreport.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm

[madmax]

11. Wow, excellent post

:yourock: Frenchie!! :hi:

[sherilocks]

12. Done