Wednesday, October 31, 2007

THIS is news?

I'm surprised that the Politico blog wasted the time reporting this poll. ("Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds" - David Paul Kuhn - Politico.com):
"One year before voters go to the polls to select the next president, the Republican Party is as weak as it has been in a generation, a detailed new poll suggests.

In a hypothetical match-up between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, bloc after bloc of traditionally Republican voters break for Clinton:

She wins the South.

She polls evenly with voters who attend church at least once a week.

She splits families with a household income above $100,000.

She loses rural voters and men — but only by a narrow margin.

All are constituencies Republicans have dominated for decades; George W. Bush won each by double-digit margins."
The poll was taken of "adults." Who in the world considers this information relevant in predicting who will win an election? We've all heard of "push polling" . . . this article could be classified as "push reporting."

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