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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1280)	2/5/2002 1:34:25 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) of 3602

Of course Libs are the locus of corruption - Clinton and regime were/are Corruption Inc. Remember, Clinton delivered, Bush refused. How many times did Lay sleep over at the Clinton WH - 11 or 12 times? How many $hundreds of millions$ did Clinton give Enron to build that plant in India in return for the prompt delivery of $100,000? And wasn't the horrible Kyoto treaty #1 of Enron's wish list? Crunch Times An essay by Frank Newport of the Gallup Organization debunks the New York Times poll (which we noted last week) that purported to find Republicans had been "tainted" by the Enron scandal. gallup.com (Gallup does polling for CNN and USA Today.) Newport notes that the Times poll included only one question on Enron that compared the political parties: "From what you know so far, do you think executives of the Enron Corporation had closer ties to members of the Republican Party or closer ties to members of the Democratic Party?" Results: 45% Republican, 10% Democrat, 10% both equally. Newport observes: Most survey researchers have learned over the years that one has to be very careful in extrapolating conclusions from individual survey questions. In particular, we have learned that respondents to phone surveys listen very carefully to the words and cues contained within questions and respond to what they perceive to be the intent of the question--and the analyst must be careful about assuming that the data suggest more than that. Along these lines, it is important to note that the New York Times/CBS News poll wording specifically uses the words "closer ties" in asking about Republican and Democratic Party relationships to Enron. The question has no direct negative implication--it does not use the words "tainted" or "entangled" or "hurt" or "negatively impacted." . . . But does the perception that the Republicans have closer ties than the Democrats to Enron lead directly to the conclusion that the Republicans, therefore, are more "tainted" or "entangled" by Enron than are the Democrats in the mind of the public? The New York Times headline writers and the authors of the article were willing to make this conceptual leap. They apparently assumed that Enron's obviously negative positioning implies that any association with Enron should be interpreted negatively. Newport goes on to enumerate the questions Gallup's poll asked about the Bush administration and Enron--the answers to which "challenge" the Times' conclusions. gallup.com opinionjournal.com

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