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DeepModem Mom

(38,402 posts)
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 11:34 PM Aug 2015

#HillaryMen: Why the Overhyped Hillary "Liar" Poll Is a Joke (HILLARY GROUP)

The Beltway commentariat was abuzz this week with the latest purported bad news about Hillary Clinton’s campaign to become America’s first woman president.

A poll by Quinnipiac University contained what appeared to be some disturbing news for the most accomplished female political leader of our time.

Said a breathless Quinnipiac press release: “‘Liar’ is the first word that comes to mind more than others in an open-ended question when voters think of Clinton.”

From the dismal precincts of the leering morning zoo testosterone fest on ratings challenged MSNBC to a column by the reliably anti-Hillary pundit Molly Ball of the august Atlantic magazine, this little data nugget was seized on like a hunk of glinting pyrite in the pan of desperate gold hunters eager to see Hillary fail.

Yet like so many of the “bad news for Hillary” stories created by a single cherry-picked piece of data in a polling universe that (still) shows Hillary dominating the Democratic primary and the general election, the “liar” claim is just another bit of fool’s gold.

And in this case it was mined with rank dishonesty, presented unethically by a pollster as a major find, and seized upon by an insider media class determined not to witness Hillary Clinton taking the oath of office in January of 2017.

Let’s go inside the Q poll numbers and see if “liar” stands up as any kind of rational data-based descriptor for general public attitudes about Hillary....

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For Quinnipiac not to break down the political ideology of the answers to the open-ended question and to present “liar” as representative of the general American voting public raises serious ethical questions about their polling work.

But of course, that’s how the spin cycle works and how it’s specifically aimed at the most viable Democratic female presidential candidate in U.S. history....

#HillaryMen: http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/exposing-the-real-deceivers-on-hillary

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#HillaryMen: Why the Overhyped Hillary "Liar" Poll Is a Joke (HILLARY GROUP) (Original Post) DeepModem Mom Aug 2015 OP
As a women its a uphill battle, HRC will make it. Iliyah Aug 2015 #1
Thank you, HillaryMen! Oh well, it will make the BS camp all confident as we stay focused and Cha Aug 2015 #2
That's us, Kath1 Aug 2015 #4
Eyes on the Prize, Kath! Cha Aug 2015 #6
I wish I could rec this 1000 times. n/t Control-Z Aug 2015 #3
Agreed! Kath1 Aug 2015 #5
Thank you for posting this, DM M. brer cat Aug 2015 #7
Hey Aloha, brer cat! Cha Aug 2015 #8
Good morning, Cha. brer cat Aug 2015 #10
Good point.. it's not the same without bravenak and heaven and all the other voices DU has Cha Aug 2015 #11
Great post Gothmog Aug 2015 #9
I saw that shit on several RW sites ismnotwasm Aug 2015 #12

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. As a women its a uphill battle, HRC will make it.
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 11:47 PM
Aug 2015

HRC a "female" will become the USA of America "Women" and for the peoples president!

Cha

(296,875 posts)
2. Thank you, HillaryMen! Oh well, it will make the BS camp all confident as we stay focused and
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 01:25 AM
Aug 2015

Last edited Sun Aug 30, 2015, 02:11 AM - Edit history (1)

forge ahead.

Mahalo DMM~

brer cat

(24,525 posts)
7. Thank you for posting this, DM M.
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 07:14 AM
Aug 2015

It takes a full time effort to debunk the MSM and anti-Hillary DUer lies and obfuscation.

As to this poll, it is summed up very neatly: "And in this case it was mined with rank dishonesty, presented unethically by a pollster as a major find, and seized upon by an insider media class determined not to witness Hillary Clinton taking the oath of office in January of 2017."

brer cat

(24,525 posts)
10. Good morning, Cha.
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 07:55 AM
Aug 2015

I keep meaning to copy that avatar...lordy I miss her!! It feels like a part of us has been amputated, doesn't it?

Cha

(296,875 posts)
11. Good point.. it's not the same without bravenak and heaven and all the other voices DU has
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 07:59 AM
Aug 2015

censored.. because they didn't like their point of view.

Copy Away, brer!

ismnotwasm

(41,967 posts)
12. I saw that shit on several RW sites
Sun Aug 30, 2015, 01:02 PM
Aug 2015

Then I saw it here.

I use the news app Zite, among others, so it's easy to get a snapshot of what's trending, and where--in fact, I'm starting to do comparisons every time I see OTT anti-Hillary crap

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