is media trying to create a bandwagon effect with the polls?

[pstokely]

is it working?

[Nashyra]

1. Yes and it is not working

So get ready for more. CNN headline news has been reporting on the Mo poll that shows * up by 6 and showing the Illinois poll that shows Kerry up by 15

[flordehinojos]

2. I absolutely think so!

:)

[DemBones DemBones]

3. I think they are. They're almost saying "It's over, Bush* won."

They didn't say "It's over, Kerry won" when Kerry was leading all the polls. I said weeks ago that they were Gore-ing Kerry.

Let's hope everybody sees it this time and is pissed enough to get out and vote!

[IronLionZion]

4. Or root for the underdog?

Which Kerry so obviously is. This has to be portrayed as the determined underdogs against the big corporate guys.

That's partly why I believe that Howard Dean and Wes Clark would be mopping the floor with Bush/Cheney right about now.

[LibertyorDeath]

5. Yes they are using the bush * doctrine of pre-emption

decide the election before the first vote is cast

They serve their master well.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Yes, they are also TRYING To supress the vote

[punpirate]

7. Given some of the recent analyses...

... I'd have to say, yes.

I saw one recent poll in which almost 40% of those polled were from military families, which are traditionally more conservative and more Republican than the rest of the population. Military households actually represent about 0.5% of the population.

Would that skew a poll? Most definitely. Was that information widely disseminated along with the poll results? Nope.

And, frankly, the closer we get to the election, the more of these polls we're going to see, especially those that concentrate on only "likely" voters (where some pollsters use only voters who have voted in all of the last three or four general elections to define "likely"), rather than the broadest range of voters.

Cheers.

[gumby]

8. Not only are they doing the "bandwagon" thing,

the traitors are doing everything in their power to skew the polls and poll reporting in order to cover-up whatever the Bushtistas do to steal the election.

Remember VNS? They were an arm of the network news. When WNS correctly predicted a Gore win in Florida, and therefore a Gore win for the presidency, they hit the right-wing brick wall.

The networks were called before Congressional inquiries and VNS (although correct all along) was disbanded.

The "news" services learned their lessons well.

[TruthIsAll]

9. Does a bear go in the woods? Do birds sing? Does Bush lie?

Is the media pro-Bush?