Tuesday, September 28, 2004

'Gallup polls: Conditioning the public for vote rigging?'

'Gallup polls: Conditioning the public for vote rigging?'
Posted on Monday, September 27 @ 10:21:39 EDT
By Stephen Crockett and Al Lawrence
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=18011&mode=nested&order=0

The recent polls showing a large Bush lead seem to be designed to either discourage Democratic voters and/or condition the American public for a Bush victory based on vote rigging. The methodology that seems to be in use by Gallup and most other polling firms connected to large corporations are greatly over weighted to give Republicans excessive representation and do not give sufficient weight to Democratic voters based on historical voting trend. Polls by independent polling organizations that are using properly weighted samples (like Zogby, Pew Research, Harris and others) are not showing a significant Bush lead and some have Kerry ahead!....