The new "bush surging" poll - some unreported red flags?

Apologies if a dupe...

I just read thru the whole poll, and it smells to me.

See the whole poll. Its in pdf, and I can't seem to cut and paste, but you can see it here:
http://www.appcpenn.org/naes/2003_03_Bush-surge-after-thanksgiving_pr.pdf

Several things stand out.

Adam Clymer is the contact, and his cell phone number is right there.

- isn't he the one bush/cheney dubbed a "bigtime ahole" - ?

The sampling size was small - 847, and they look to glean a whole lot from this "poll" including a breakdown of race, age gender, etc.

And in the methodolgy box, you'll see that it simply states, as if in passing, that not all questions were asked of all polled. Alrighty then. Is that normal? How many were not asked what? And what is the demographic breakdown of those who were asked only certain questions?

There's another interesting box near the end that shows bush's supposed improvement, on a scale from one to ten. Improvement in these areas is miniscule, and a further disclaimer states that respondents expressing a "unsure" or the like response were ommitted from this report on results. Wouldn't that skew results? Wouldn't that at the very least give a misleading snapshot of America's political mood?

edited for a certain effect

And anybody that is familiar with my posts knows that I have no use for the tinfoil hat crowd. But that sample size does look a bit small for a 3% margin of error. I am waiting to see the next major poll. However, polls at this time in the cycle don't really mean that much for the POTUS election.

Now for the Democratic primaries they mean a lot because we are only weeks away from the first primary.

Another Bullshit Poll

bogus pr poll, probably push-polling. Smells to me like they are having to create a rosy scenario for Georgie Boy and to mislead the indifferent populace into total surrender.

But that's just my amateur opinion.