Polls Change Party Mix to Create an Obama Trend

You can't trust anybody in the media these days. The Associated Press and and others have been rigging their poll calculations to make it appear that Barack Obama has a growing lead among potential voters. Please read this NewsBusters story by Tom Blumer carefully. DJ Drummond at Wizbang blog has posted numerous times about the continuing re-adustment of political party weighting and other shenanigans in the polls. It is disappointing to read about this statistical trickery.

Is it a deliberate effort to manufacture an Obama lead? Is the media hell-bent on subverting the legitimate election process? Do they want to influence the outcome of the election as Dan Rather attempted in the last presidential race with his 'fake but accurate' Texas ANG documents? Are they doing this because they feel that 'it is time' for the USA to elect a black, and they must do what they can to 'make a difference'?

Whatever their motive, it is wrong to do this sort of thing while posing as legitimate newsmen and newswomen. Shame on them all.
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Personally, I suspect these faked up polls will be used after the election to justify the left's cries of "We was robbed!"

A Poll about Polls

I'm trying out a poll about the cause of the recent McCain-Palin poll bounce. I never attended Gallup U, even though there is a campus here in Omaha, so I don't know how to skew the questions to get the the results to fit my own pre-existing conclusions. I'm not clever enough to create a sensible binary poll that would satisfy the curiosity that moved me to create this poll in the first place. I considered this: a) it was something Sarah said or did b) it was something Obama said or did; but it seemed somehow unsophisticated. I'm just not a binary thinker.

The poll will run for one week. Please register your opinion even if you have methodological gripes. Feel free to post said gripes, condemnations and suggestions in the comments to this post. Since I'd like as many folks to vote in my little poll as possible, links to same which come to my attention will be rewarded with kind words and back-links right here, as well as a small measure of fair treatment in future Plains Feeder comments.

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Help the old feeder: This poll refuses to appear correctly in any of my browsers. Especially if I try to view it via the permalink to this post.If it seems all screwed up to you, please let me know in the comments. I might have to try a different 'free' poll service. or just fuggedaboudit!