DRUDGE, "Accuracy Of Polls a Question In Itself"

[KansasVoter]

LOL.....polls are bad when they are not BREAKING for McLame!!!

[Bicoastal]

1. LOL, I think I'm going to like tonight's ZOMG!by

[nsd]

14. You were right!

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7663572

[Curtland1015]

2. Must mean Obama is going to gain again tomorrow.

:P

[tpi10d]

3. "Accuracy Of Polls a Question In Itself"

Especially the cherry picked outliers which appear on his page.

[Phredicles]

4. Not as big a question as the accuracy of Drudge;

I'm surprised he can still show his virtual face in public.

[Pirate Smile]

5. LOL - hilarious.

[afridemo]

6. I heard on cbs how the McLame campaign is trying to push this angle

and that margin of errors could be subtracted from Obama and added to McLame.

I said wow,how can't it be the other way around,McLame is desperate.

[bluedawg12]

13. Son of liberal Democrats- Drudge the outsider made $800,000/yr

in 2003. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Drudge

He is laughing all the way to the bank trashing progressives, while being a RW propagandist.

Hmmm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Drudge

" Drudge gained notoriety when he was the first outlet to break the news which later became the Monica Lewinsky scandal"

"In their 2006 book The Way To Win, Mark Halperin and John Harris report that Ken Mehlman, the Republican Party chairman, kind of brags (as CNN host Howard Kurtz puts it) about utilizing the Drudge channel.<17> They also write that:

>>Drudge, with his droll Dickensian name, was not the only media or political agent whose actions led to John Kerry's defeat. But his role placed him at the center of the game -- a New Media World Order in which Drudge was the most potent player in the process and a personifications of the dynamic that did Kerry in."

ABC News concluded that the Drudge Report sets the tone for national political coverage.<20> The article states that:

"Republican operatives keep an open line to Drudge, often using him to attack their opponents."

Income
A story by Business 2.0 magazine from April 2003 estimated that Drudge's website received $3,500 a day in advertising revenues. Subtracting his relatively minor server costs, the magazine estimated that The Drudge Report website grossed $800,000 a year. <23> An article in The Miami Herald from September 2003 said Drudge estimated he earns $1.2 million a year from his website and radio show. During an April 30, 2004 appearance on C-SPAN, Drudge confirmed that he earns over $1 million.
Comments by journalists
Drudge has been called "the Walter Cronkite of his era" by Halperin and Harris, <18> "an idiot with a modem" by Keith Olbermann,<46> "the country's reigning mischief-maker" by Todd Purdum of the The New York Times, <47> and Michael Isikoff of Newsweek said "Drudge is a menace to honest, responsible journalism. And to the extent that he's read and people believe what they read, he's dangerous."
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[Swamp Rat]

7. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

:rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

11. Swamp Rat: did you catch this?

Made me think about you, doncha wish you'd thought of it? I do, glad someone did...



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7646879

:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

12. LOL!!

That's great! :D

[featherman]

8. I love it. Questioning the polls is always an indication of a campaign in its death throes

[msongs]

9. step one in election theft - make the polls look wrong/ the election look closer than it is nt

[Omnibus]

10. If the Drudge-reported trends were accurate...

...McCain would be up by 25% instead of down by 6-7%.

[Quixote1818]

15. They have to have articles like this to keep people tuned in. Even Drudge probably doesn't believe

this crap. He knows his audience need hope and will keep coming back to his site if there is some kind of pathetic article that gives them a glimpse of hope. If all people read at Drudge is McCain is toast then they will stop coming back until after election day. They need to give the fish some bate to nibble on every day. That is all this is.