CNN’s Polls Are Grade A – Or Else!

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CNN's Presidential Debate Report Card echoes most polls offered by the main stream media.  It involves 60% Democrats as a sample group, and if your response doesn't agree with their agenda, then some ‘alterations' are made.  In other words, the results are weighted to provide liberals with an edge. 

The Web site's latest report card allows the viewer to rate the performance of both Presidential candidates in Wednesday's debate.  Seems pretty straight-forward, right?  But things weren't working properly for some readers.

In fact, when visiting the Barack Obama side of the report card first, all is seemingly well. Votes are counted and recorded correctly.  Everything seems just dandy.  However, when one visits the John McCain side first, things can get a little peculiar. 

This peculiarity occurred several times early Thursday afternoon, and will be outlined after the break.

When clicking on a choice of grade for McCain's debate performance, I went with an A, as can be seen here with the highlight:

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McCain grade

After clicking ‘next' the overall results appeared.  This showed that I had chosen an A, while the overall average was a D, obviously reflecting a heavily liberal viewer base.  Fine.

McCain Grade 2

I then went over to Barack Obama's grades.  After carefully sifting through the propaganda, I decided to give him a more realistic grade of C for his performance, which is highlighted below.

 Obama Grade

Here's where it gets a little crazy.  After clicking ‘next' the results are again shown, which indicated that I had, contrary to reality, given Obama a grade of A. 

Obama Grade 3

That's 8 out of 10 times, I chose a grade between C and F, and the results indicated that I had selected an A instead. 

Since this happened, the problem remains, though intermittently.

Regardless, at least for a period of time, voters were giving Obama a grade of A no matter what they actually requested.

Evidently it wasn't enough to have a completely-in-the-tank-for-Saint-Obama Democratic strategist (Begala), the Editor-at-Large for the Huffington Post (Rosen, who is, incidentally, identified merely as a CNN 'contributor' on the initial page), and a senior political analyst who once hallucinated that the liberal establishment ‘doesn't exist anymore' (Gergen). 

No, CNN had to go ACORN on my vote, completely fabricating a false grade for the benefit of Barack Obama.  The only surprise was that Mickey Mouse hadn't registered on the site as one of the analysts. 

Perhaps this is the education reform policy that Obama could adopt.  The CNN policy of better education through handing out unearned A's.  Hey, it's just as viable as asking kids to put away their video games and hoping that fixes everything I suppose.

Apparently with CNN's assistance, being the chosen one means that even when you make a different choice, Obama still end's up reaping the benefits.


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Say it ain't so!

 The MSM fudging the polls to make Obama look better?  I'm flabbergasted!

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama

Wouldn't it be sweet if

Wouldn't it be sweet if there was a video of this? And then it could spread across the internet.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Great phrase

"Going ACORN" -- definitite going to use that one. Very clever. Thanks.

The newest term

The newest term in our political dictionary is ;

"Going ACORN" : Agressively creating chaos in capitalist society for the purpose of undermining elections and financial markets to the benefit of socialist programs.

PBS/Palin/Poll

Here is an email from a liberal friend of mine who evidently assumes that taxpayer funded polls should only be used by taxpayers who have the same POV as they. POV discrimination I would say. Like, I support their lopsided agenda as well, much to my chagrin.

 

Hey,

It's pathetic that I even have to send this out. I apologize.
But I can see Canada from Cadillac Mountain so can I do foreign policy?
You betcha, Joe Sixpack, you betcha.

   Important 
>>>         PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is
>>>
>>>         qualified. Apparently the right wing knew about this
>>>
>>>         in  advance and are flooding the voting with YES
>>>
>>>         votes.
>>>
>>>
>>>         The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by
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>>>         mainstream  media. It can influence undecided voters
>>>
>>>         in swing states.
>>>

>>> 

Another crying towel needed

Or shamwow for the never ending tears

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Is Anybody Surprized?

Why would this surprize anyone? 

These are the MOST dishonest, evil people in our Country!

Save our country, STOP Barack Hussein Obama NOW!

 

He won! He won!

Another finely tuned Obama al-gore-ithm.

This happened to me too!

I thought this was peculiar also! I clicked A for McCain and it showed A.  Then I clicked F for Obama and it said I selected A.  I was furious, but not surprised.  Thanks for bringing this to light.  CNN, just change your name to OLN (Obama Loving Network).

NYU Polls suck too

A couple weeks ago a Pop-up appeared on my screen as I was surfing some political website and asked me if I wanted to participate in a NYU Election 2008 political poll.  It also stated that the poll would come in 2 parts and they would send me a link for the 2nd part in a few days after the first part of the poll was completed. 

 I decided to take the poll and proceeded with answering the questions.  Obviously, I am not a supporter of any of Obama's lame brain ideas or philosophies etc. so I was extremely negative on 99.9% of them.  I then answered questions about McCain and honestly I'm not a huge fan of him either so I graded him somewhere in the middle on most things except his Iraq War policy and general military policy which both I graded high. 

Ok all well and done.  Completed the poll entered the required contact data and email address to receive my link for the next poll etc. 

 Guess what? I never received an email from them for doing the 2nd part of the poll.  I presume that since my answers were so harsh to the ONE they decided to discard me from their poll database and entered my name on their "To Be Shot On Sight" database just in case I ever showed up at NYU for some reason. By the way, before I finished the poll and submitted my answers I had no idea it was from NYU.

Moral of the story.  Don't participate in polls that liberals fomulate because unless you are all for their candidate and against a conservative it's a complete waste of time and effort.