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To: John Carragher who wrote (69091)	1/27/2003 11:30:54 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

poll numbers are also another way for each side to manipulate the masses depending on how the poll questions are put together. You can quite often determine how to get the result you want from a poll by the way the question is formed. Absolutely no doubt about that. And that's why responsible journalists are skeptical about poll numbers which come from campaign organizations. And responsible citizens should be so as well. However, awareness of precisely that tactic is so high, the large outfits that do national polls, not only share their questions with journalists so they can be checked for that kind of basis, but are hyper aware of the problem. Thus, I think it's probably not an accurate charge. At least generally. Doesn't mean that one can't go into a polling organizations survey questions and find something that seems unduly to make your side look bad.