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To: Ron who wrote (6330)1/27/2004 9:08:24 PM
From: The Philosopher   of 20773
 
Now, we wouldn't want to accuse the media of liberal bias, naturally, but the headline " MAJORITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTERS OPPOSE IRAQ WAR: POLL" is very misleading. This sounds as though it was a poll of all voters, or of a cross-section of voters. But if you read down, you find that's not true.

There were both Democratic and Republican voters in NH today. There were primaries in both parties. But the poll was ONLY of people who voted in the Democratic primary.

So, the correct headline should have been "MAJORITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OPPOSE IRAQ WAR: POLL"

But that's a duh, isn't it? Hardly surprising news, particularly if one considers that the Democratic voters who go to the polls to vote in primaries tend to the be the most active Democrats, who tend to be the more liberal.

Really, a "majority of men prefer dating women to dating men" story.
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