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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

SWAC Girl Is On The Case

SWAC Girl reveals to us the fact that results of a Staunton News Leader poll relating to the candidacy of Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-6th District) have been skewed by out-of-staters being egged on by the flamethrowers at Daily Kos. A quote from her blog:
Less than 24 hours later there were over 5,000 votes at a newspaper that is lucky to get 300 votes in a poll.

An investigation began ... and it was discovered a tie with Daily Kos, the nationwide extremely liberal democrat blogging network, to spam or google bomb the News Leader poll by urging thousands of liberal bloggers to vote against Congressman Goodlatte.
She doesn't provide the actual results of the poll, and they really don't matter, considering the fact that they are worthless.

But how about that News Leader poll question?
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th, has again voted against extending the State Children's Health Insurance Program. If a challenge is mounted against Goodlatte in 2008, who will you vote for? Goodlatte or the challenger?
That's about as leading a question as I've ever seen. It would be akin to my doing the following poll:
Hillary Clinton, not wanting it any longer, gave away the family cat, Socks, to the hired help. Will you as an animal lover vote for her in the upcoming 2008 election?
A question with an intended answer hardly constitutes an opinion poll.

The Staunton News Leader could just as well have made the poll look like this:

2 comments:

wd said...

Let's see: Candidate who managed a secret police operation to get her husband elected and is operating another one to get herself elected and took/takes campaign contributions (bribes)from Communist China's Peoples Liberation Army OR the Republican
Candidate. Okay, I get it.

Jerry Fuhrman said...

Don't try to figure it out. It'll just hurt.