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Posted by Stephen Green · 3 March 2005

(Hat tip, Stan Brown. Oh, and a note to Stan. Hey, it'd be much easier if you'd just send a link instead of your entire post. Harder to fish links out of Outlook than it is from Explorer. Cheers!)

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Heh. Of course, Eugene Volokh just blogged today to do the opposite and include both the entire post and the link in the e-mails...

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_02_27-2005_03_05.shtml#1109885586

Time to tailor my link whoring to each individual target, ummm, I mean, uberblogger.

Posted by: John Branch at March 3, 2005 02:59 PM

The NYT rigged the poll, probably. I dont read the NYT daily so I am not sure. But I have read the LAT for 50 years and I do know that they have rigged their polls since Big O took over. The best example is the poll released a day before the recall election Oct 03. It said we were against the recall and that Arnold and Cruz would both only get about 30%. 2 days later Davis was recalled; Arnold got 49%. Cruz did get 30%. When researching the #'s it turns out LAT double counted a group known to be against Arnold and weighted a pro Arnold group only 57%. When called to explain this they said they were trying to give better representation to certain "underrepresented minorities".

Posted by: Rod Stanton at March 3, 2005 03:06 PM

Stephen--
Time to post something about Peter Arnett and his article coming out in Playboy re: Uday Hussein was going to overthrow his father's govt.

Yeah, SURE he was Peter! Arnett needs an even bigger outing than Dan Rather got. These guys just don't give up with the boolshat, do they?

Posted by: don at March 3, 2005 03:11 PM

Don! you read it for the articles too?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at March 3, 2005 03:45 PM

Such a strange reaction from a member of the "reality based" community

Posted by: Larry Bernard at March 3, 2005 04:12 PM

Don:

How did he argue that it matters that Uday was going to overthrow Saddam?

I don't know either one personally, but from what I hear, Uday was even more nuts than dad.

Posted by: Ignatius Byrd at March 3, 2005 04:27 PM

Almost every poll is slanted. I don't even believe them.

Posted by: Alexa at March 3, 2005 04:36 PM

Democrats will have problems as long as they continue to believe that abortions and gay marriage will decide important elections.

They need to stop thinking so one dimensionally (it's all about the polls!), especially on Iraq.

Posted by: aaron at March 3, 2005 07:01 PM

I'll say this for Yglesias, at least he comes to a relatively realistic conclusion based on those bad numbers.

Posted by: Dave at March 3, 2005 07:26 PM

How many times must these people be exposed for the hacks that they are. Trying to influence public opinion thru fabricated polls. Once again we will tell the NYT their job; you are to report the news & investigate stories not make the news.

Posted by: Red at March 3, 2005 08:18 PM