WHEN A POLL IS NOT A POLL

Starting with the Clinton administration, Democrats and their lap dogs in the media have enshrined so-called polls. Poll results are used at the drop of a hat to support anyone and anything that advances the left wing agenda.
Thus we have to ask, when is a poll not a poll?
The brief answer is when it's a poll invented by a Democrat operative or a left wing media propaganda outfit.
In days past, when journalists were journalists, polls were never created in order to produce a story. The media seldom referred to a poll unless it originated with a completely unbiased source. But in recent times, all the major radio and TV networks as well as major magazines and newspapers have begun to take their own polls.
The clever deception here is that the polls are taken not to obtain results but to manufacture a story. The headlines scream look what this poll shows and look what that poll shows. The reader is fooled into believing that this is a legitimate news story. But it isn't. It's a story based on a poll done by a biased source with an agenda. And seldom is the agenda not leftist.
Here's how it works. Fueled by a seething hatred for George Bush, your agenda is to make Bush look bad. So you get out there and ask folks a bunch of questions about torture and prisoner abuse. You cleverly design the questions to get the answers that are required to advance your agenda. You make sure that you know in advance how the question will be answered by a majority of those questioned. Once you have enough pre-arranged responses you rush back to the office and dutifully write a story about how most people think U.S. Marines are the villains at Guantanamo Bay and most of the terrorists prisoners are innocent victims of torture and abuse. Lots of people read your ill founded propaganda disguised as it is as legitimate news. Lots of readers or viewers then believe most of their fellow citizens think that George Bush endorses military torture and abuse which in turn leads many to believe that everyone in the Bush administration endorses torture and abuse which leads many to believe that everyone who likes George Bush also just loves to torture and abuse people. Now who would ever vote for such a bunch of torture and abuse lovers. Obviously nobody would. Thus the agenda is fulfilled and Democrats and other socialists win future elections.
But happily most of the leftist media miss the most important of polls, the Nielsen ratings and similar surveys. In every case these legitimate polls show more and more Americans no longer watch left wing television. More and more Americans shun left wing radio. And fewer and fewer Americans read the propaganda found in left wing magazines and newspapers.
When it comes to who is winning the battle of the polls, it's the left wing that is clearly losing.