Frank Luntz; Biased Ass Pollster

[Jon8503]

Why does this guy keep getting away with his bullshit. He is on Scarborough now, same crap.

On July 28, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews described Luntz as "a great pollster," but as Media Matters for America has noted, Salon.com reported in 2000 that there is little reason to trust his polls. In 1997, the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) reprimanded Luntz for his polling work on the Republican Party's 1994 Contract with America campaign platform. The Salon.com article described Luntz as "possibly the best example of what we could call the pollster pundit: someone who both purports to scientifically poll the opinions of the public, and then also interpret that data to support his own -- in Luntz's case, conservative -- point of view." Luntz has explained his own methodology as follows: "Say you poll on an environmental issue, and on eight of the 10 questions the numbers are in your favor. Why release the other two? It's like being a lawyer."

[AmerDem]

1. Read Media Matters full outing of Luntz here...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200409030018

[Paradise]

2. He's obvious but he's very politically shrewd!

I've complained to msnbc to no avail.
Good show on cnbc.

edit: changed savvy to shrewd.

[chieftain]

3. Thanks For Calling This Guy Out .

I cringe every time he comes on because I know I am going to be fed a line of RW nonsense disguised as objective research .

[Lefty48197]

4. Luntz is a putz

Only that dork could find a bunch of Ohio white men who would claim to be undecided, yet suddenly decided to support the Republicans after the Zell screech. Only Frank.

[buff2]

5. His "focus groups" are worse than he is.

Democrats,Independents,republicans and others....always end up either supporting the idiot in thief or "leaning toward" him. Scumbag liars. All of them. It's a set-up from start to finish.

[Carni]

6. Big ASSED biased ass polster to boot!

What a DORK that guy is.

[chaumont58]

7. What value is this guy to anyone?

Maybe he can't get a job working for a campaign. His value to TV audiences is limited. Most political junkies know him to be a repuke. He was hawking his spiel for them in '92.
I don't think MS-RNC is getting their money's worth. Cable TV has a limited audience to begin with, and out of that audience, who is Luntz going to fool?
I don't watch him anymore and don't miss him.

[featherman]

8. His "focus group" segments are out and out propaganda

pieces carefully managed and manipulated for pro-GOP results. Quite blatant and ridiculous. I simply turn the channel whenever he is on.