American politics in crisis
I think most of us would agree that fair and accurate opinion polling is an important component of democracy. Thus this post from Steven Den Beste is chilling. He believes that independently all of the major polling companies have deliberately been skewing their results to favour John Kerry.The argument is slightly complex, so let me explain. They've not been deliberately boosting Kerry, as that (one presumes) would be too obvious. Instead they deliberately underplayed his chances after the Republican conference, in order to allow an October comeback.
You have to wonder about Amerian political culture sometimes...
posted by Matthew @ 10/22/2004 02:50:00 PM
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