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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 08:19 PM
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What polls are the least biased
Edited on Thu May-20-04 08:21 PM by Lucky Luciano
Is Gallup ok?
Zogby?

I have no idea what their biases/reputations may be.

I don't want a left-wing biased poll or a right-wing biased poll. I want an unbiased poll.

For now, I could look at the newspapers doing the poll and if it is a liberal newspaper, then I will look at poll done by Fox and take the average.
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 08:32 PM
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1. Just look at the average Bush Job Ratings to find out
Edited on Thu May-20-04 08:40 PM by TruthIsAll
These are the averages of all monthly Bush ratings since he stole office.

Most biased (the cable whores)
fox 64.33
cnn 64.41 < Worst 2 (Gallup)
nbc 63.50 (WSJ)
abc 66.92 (WP) <Worst 1
AVG 64.79

Least biased (the rest)
nwk 62.00
pew 59.69 <Best 2
cbs 63.69 (NYT)
time 62.90
ap 60.17 (Reuters)
zog 59.12 <Best 1
AVG 61.26
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 08:32 PM
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2. I think
all the accusations about biased polls are overblown. DU'ers complain about 'em being too far Right, Freepers argue about 'em being too far Left.

The fact is, a successful polling company survives because their polls are ACCURATE, not biased. The major companies all do their best, but they DO have different methodologies.

That being said, I've found Zogby to be one of the most accurate.
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malatesta1137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 08:39 PM
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3. Just take a look at 2000
Zogby was the only one right.
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