MRC's Tim Graham and Neil Cavuto Discuss Harry Reid's Sudden Poll Hatred on Fox News
On Wednesday, MRC director of media analysis Tim Graham was a guest on Your World with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel. The subject was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s odd declaration that the latest CBS/New York Times poll showing an all-time low approval rating for Obama was “meaningless,” and he’s suspicious of polls. Fox then ran a series of Reid soundbites touting polls as a contrast.
Tim said, “The real poll that matters are elections. I’m sure Harry Reid would have told us in 2010 that polls saying the Republicans were going to take the House of Representatives were meaningless. They didn’t end up being meaningless.” (Video below the cut)
And "You can say, 'I don't like polls where they take a sample of 300 people, and say that's the view of 200 million people.'" I can understand that. But the fact of the matter is Washington operates a lot of times on those 300-person samples. I just think we as media consumers should be awfully nervous about very liberal television networks giving us their polls with their loaded questions."
Cavuto underlined: "We're the only network bringing this to light."
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Well, to give the devil his
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 11:06am.
Well, to give the devil his due, Dingy Harry isn't doing anything that every other politician doesn't engage in.
⇒ You're right mb
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 12:42pm.
Except he rolled over when the President attacked Las Vegas as a business convention venue.
Most politicians show at least a cursory interest in their constituents, but not Milquetoast Harry.
The subject is Reid's saying
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:20pm.
The subject is Reid's saying a poll was worthless. All politicians do that: when a poll is in their favor, they wave it around as "proof" of whatever. When they don't get the result they want, they say it's "meaningless."
Unless there is a poll that Reid "rolled" on regarding his constituents and Las Vegas, the two a re unrelated.
Great Segment
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 12:16pm.
Fantastic segment on Cavuto's show, Mr. Graham. I wish I had seen it live. To bad we didn't get this clown out of office when we had the chance.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
"meaningless"
Submitted by russedav on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:03pm.
Thus speaks the soon to be incoming Senate MINORITY leader! Please God!
It's too bad there's not a way to expell states from the Union for being demented enough to "elect" [or buy] vile lawless degenerate criminal fascists like Reid.
Suddenly, the Democrats don't trust polls? Remember 2004?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 6:51pm.
They were apoplectic about Ohio and the supposed exit polling showing a Kerry win. Turns out the election results were quite different and the polls were horribly wrong. They were put in the spot of having whined about every vote counting in Florida, but suddenly wanted to toss that out the window in favor of flawed exit polls. They may have conveniently forgotten about their own hypocrisy, but the rest of us did not.
Yes Harry, I'm suspicious,
Submitted by FishFace222 on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:30am.
Yes Harry, I'm suspicious, too. Obammy's approval is probably a little bit lower than the media is portraying it to be.
I understand
Submitted by Russian55 on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 1:57am.
I know how polls work. I know the formulae by which you determine a sample size.
Yes, a poll of 300 people to gauge 200 million isn't very accurate.
But a poll of about 1200 is all you need to sample for a nearly infinite population. I can prove it mathematically.
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