Zogby's anti-Obama polling tactics exposed by Media Matters

[mcablue]

Pollster John Zogby has engaged in dubious practices this year that have prompted the progressive website mediamatters.org to issue a warning today regarding his anti-Obama (sometimes even racist) tactics. Here it is:

The conservative Examiner newspaper is hyping a new poll from pollster John Zogby that purportedly shows that 43% of respondents would support the re-election of President Obama. The poll was commissioned by Brad O'Leary (author of an anti-Obama book called "The Audacity of Deceit"), who has previously comissioned misleading polls to push an anti-Obama agenda.

Zogby was recently caught pushing a racially charged poll question asking if the FCC should ask "good white people" to step aside for African-Americans and gays.

In February, Zogby pushed out an anti-stimulus poll with some extremely loaded language.

With that kind of track record and pedigree, Zogby's work should probably be treated with healthy skepticism.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911170043

[Cha]

1. WTF is zogby's problem?

He should be fooking glad Obama is president unless he's just such a greedy corporate whore that his people mean nothing to him.

[depakid]

2. Same one a LOT of American pollsters have

They're in the business of getting clients what they want to hear- which in turn is used by the client to influence public opinion.

One more element in the culture of lies that permeates the United States.

[seattle_blue]

3. MCABLUE: Thanx for the post

Rasmussen is also infamous for awfully biased polls...

[tandot]

4. Interesting! Thanks for posting, mcablue!

K & R

[mrcheerful]

5. I've seen the wing nuts using the 43% as a sure sign that they will get the

White house back in 2012, though when pushed as to where they got the numbers from, they always say I saw it somewhere on the internet.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. They can make up any "Facts" they want to

come the election, we'll see.

[democracy1st]

7. K & R

[Bitwit1234]

8. If you check you will see

that they are owned by a republican corporation. So what do you think they would post that the poll numbers are.

[Tippy]

9. I polled for Zogby for several years.....

Today I nolonger even read his polls..he sold his soul to the company store.....

[OregonBlue]

11. I no longer participate in his polls. Waste of time and very biased.

[Ian David]

10. I've taken Zogby polls and told them to fuck-off when I get to the loaded questions. n/t

[Cha]

15. Thanks! If ever one got through to

me my ears would be so tuned for their questions.

[DrToast]

12. You ever notice that the crooked pollsters are always right-leaning?*

*

[Tippy]

13. They do tend to lean right....n/t

[Cha]

14. I wanted to thank MediaMatters for their intrepid,

relentless work on exposing mediawhores.

[alstephenson]

16. I've taken the Zogby on-line polls.

Some of the questions are unbelievable! What a tool! Whenever the results of a poll are quoted it should be required that the exact question asked should be presented as well.