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slick8790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-08 12:13 PM
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Let's never trust Zogby again, eh? "Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website"
"The conservative website HowObamaGotElected.com reports that it has commissioned Zogby International to conduct a poll of 512 Barack Obama voters as part of what can best be described as a viral marketing effort to discredit the intelligence of Obama supporters.

The website, created by former radio talk show host John Ziegler to promote a forthcoming documentary, features a YouTube clip of interviews with 12 Obama voters who "were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience". The clip portrays the Obama supporters as giving "incorrect" answers to political questions such as "which candidate said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket". Of the 12 Obama supporters interviewed for the clip, 7 (58%) are black; nationwide, about 23% of Obama supporters were black according to the national exit poll."


Read more..

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/zogby-engages-in-apparent-push-polling.html


I think any questions about Zogby's bias or shoddy polling are answered with that article. Fuck you Zogby.
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slick8790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-08 12:21 PM
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1. I know amid the Lieberman blood-orgy that GD:P has become, things can fall through the cracks.
But this is important for the future, people. Kick.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-08 12:24 PM
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2. John Ziegler?! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!! Oh, he has some skeletons in his closet!
Edited on Tue Nov-18-08 12:25 PM by Roland99
He used to be on local radio here and regularly got his ass handed to him in the Point/Counterpoint type show he had with John Yarmuth (D-KY).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ziegler_(talk_show_host)

In 2002, wanting to return to radio, Ziegler was hired by Louisville, Kentucky radio station WHAS. Once again, his tenure did not last long, as during a Ask John Anything segment, he discussed the physical attributes, intimate attire, and genital grooming of Darcie Divita, a former Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader and WDRB morning television host with whom Ziegler had a relationship until Divita broke up with him. WHAS fired him on August 27, 2003, and Divita sued for $2,700,000, claiming libel and defamation of character. However, on May 24, 2005, Ziegler was found not liable for damages as Divita was deemed a public figure by virtue of being a television personality. The case is currently on appeal.


Ziegler is like a Zell Miller type. Like a Boehner.

Just a total talking point spewing MORON of the highest order.


I'll never understand how Ms. Divita ever hooked up with an old cretin like Ziegler. No accounting for bad taste I guess.
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tritsofme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-08 12:26 PM
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3. I don't think he's biased, if anything John Zogby has made it known that he
is sympathetic to Democrats.

But he is a shoddy pollster who will do anything for a buck, so something like this doesn't surprise me.

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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-08 02:18 PM
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4. Ha! Someone I used to work with is using this as PROOF the MSM was in the tank for Obama.
:banghead:
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