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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Trippi who wrote (7692)	10/3/1998 8:54:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Respond to of 13994

How do you explain the difference between the MSNBC Live/online surveys and the public polling? I've been wondering the same thing. The so-called "public opinion" polls are the only aberration in an otherwise coincident data set. For instance: 1. The online vox populi surveys are uniformly anti-Clinton 2. Senator Feinstein (D-CA) tells us feedback from her constituents runs heavily in favor of Clinton impeachment or resignation 3. The union teacher living across the street from me has scraped off his Clinton/Gore bumper sticker and hidden the residue with a "My Child Is a Star Pupil" sticker 4. Of the hundred or so people with whom I have spoken about the situation, an overwhelming majority think that Clinton should resign or be impeached for lying to us 5. Over 300 elected Democrats at all levels have switched party affiliations since Clinton was elected in 1992 6. Democrat candidates are showing a marked reluctance to be seen campaigning in public with Clinton 7. I (registered independent) have never been polled for a political issue, and I don't know anyone who has ever been polled for a political issue The polling results I have seen have a sample of fewer than 2000 people. If the pollsters are getting their phone numbers from the rolls of registered Democrats, or of people in Boston or unionist Detroit, or of retirement centers like Miami or Phoenix, then of course there will be a high percentage of those with a vested interest in keeping Clinton in office. Don't forget; the phrasing of opinion poll questions weighs into the argument, too. All I want from the White House is the truth. And it's clearly not being offered. RS

To: Trippi who wrote (7692)	10/3/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Trippi, my guess...internet surfers are in general better informed. Has anyone else's navigation bar dissappeard? Help! I really got used to that darn thing. :-) Michael

To: Trippi who wrote (7692)	10/5/1998 9:34:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 13994

THE PARADOX OF THE POLLS Arkansas Democrat-Gazette October 5, 1998 UNSIGNED The paradox of the polls The polls say the president's deception and philandering in office disgust a majority of the American people, but that a similar majority think the president is doing a good job. The polls say the American people think some details in the Starr Report are salacious, pornographic, explicit, and fit for neither a family newspaper nor polite conversation. But folks are buying copies of the Starr Report at a best-selling clip. The polls said that most of the American people (a) didn't think that videotape of the president's testimony before the grand jury should have been broadcast and (b) didn't plan on watching it. But Nielsen research reports that some 22 million viewers tuned in, and CNN got some of its best ratings ever. Question: Do the polls tell us what we're thinking or what we're supposed to think? Conclusion: Poll-taking is not a measurement of public opinion but, increasingly, a device to influence it. 209.67.114.212