Bleh! Again, as if a self-respecting (not a Clueless Old Liberal type for sure) conservative leaning individual needed this information to know that polls are not worth the space they occupy.

Accurate polling is damned near impossible given the bias of the individuals that create the poll questions, make the surveys, collect the data and compile it all for consumption. There's always some bias slipping in along the way. It seems that the news above tells us all that there was a hell of a lot of BIAS involved and slipped into the polls conducted during the last Presidential election -- tons of it coming from the falsified answers that were supposedly provided by the cats and dogs that were interviewed along the way.

This isn't exactly a surprise is it? Everyone with any sense knows that polls are pure bull and are meaningless.

This isn't exactly a surprise is it? Everyone with any sense knows that polls are pure bull and are meaningless.

Tell that to Klink. He'll argue with you on it.  

As for the article:

There are fakes and frauds in every profession. The actions of certain individuals within a profession do not speak to the profession itself. Does one doped Olympian indicate that all the Olympics are fake and "anyone with any sense knows that human being aren't really capable of those physical feats"?


As for the comments:

(shakes head) More "everyone that x is y" claptrap and Colonel bashing.

Are you guys real or just a really bad AI with only three responses?

Your biases, bashing, and constant stereotyping contrary to proven reality seriously call into question your intelligence.

The comments in this thread are just more of the insanity and stupidity that has frankly caused me to hate Conservatives. As much as you all think you're accomplishing with your smallmindedness and bashing of the left, the real legacy you are leaving is to create a disquieting and disgusting caricature of the right.

When I first came here I hated Liberals and saw them for as a great an evil as anyone else here did. After nearly three years here I not only have much greater sympathy and respect for Liberals, but I've actual grown to hate Conservatives.

Are you guys really proud of yourself for this stuff?



(Is that lively enough for you, MM? )

Oh, for the record, again I could speak of what would seem to be biased polls from the conservative side too. For example, the recently scandal ridden former head of, or at least very important member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that was trying to bring in outside monitors and polling data to show a liberal bias in the PBS system was probably very guilty of same, though on the surface I think he started out trying to do the right thing.

He was convinced of what many people have accused PBS of: having a liberal bias. PBS is required by law to be non-partisan, and it would seem to make sense that monitoring PBS' content to make sure it's not tilting one way or the other would seem to be a good thing. Apparently the thought of having such monitoring was too much for some noted liberals to take though, and they worked to get the guy fired claiming he had actually broken the laws that he seemed to be trying to insure compliance with.

I use the liberal label here because the people that were involved in firing the guy actually call themselves progressives/liberals, and are clearly aligned with the Democrats. The man in question was clearly aligned with the GOP, and clearly was a conservative.

Both seemed to have knoble goals in mind, but unfortunately the conservatives lost as the liberals made a big scandal of the whole thing.

Again, there are biases on both sides, but more frequently than not -- at least in recent history -- the biases that come shining through seem to be on the liberal side.