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Beware of Polls!

Posted on | October 24, 2010 | 6 Comments

I get tired of saying this, but we can’t let polls do our thinking for us. A Los Angeles Times poll appears to have oversampled Democrats, as Professor Donald Douglas explains at American Power.

Disinformation is the new objectivity.

Category: American Power, California, Election, Polls

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6 Responses to “Beware of Polls!”

  1. Mark J. Goluskin
    October 24th, 2010 @ 10:05 pm

    And we are to be shocked?! The Left Angeles Times poll is an absolute outlier as I point out here http://rightviewfromtheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-is-going-on-with-california-voters.html
    The only good thing for the Left Angeles Times is that it makes great fish wrap!