Posted by
Too Tall in Texas on Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:58:40 AM
I had a moment of truly enlightened thinking. No, there wasn't a voice coming from the heavens when the clouds parted "telling me to vote for Barack". I was listening to the usual fretting and discussion over the polls that show McCain is behind by so many points, etc. Then the commentators said that there was the New York Times poll that had McCain down by around 15 points, and the RealClearPolitics poll that takes the averages to come up with it's own numbers.
My thought is this.... If the NY Times and all these other media outlets that do polls are so far in the tank with Obama, what's to stop them from purposely skewing the numbers to make it look like Obama is out of reach of McCain - and thereby influencing the undecided voters (which there seems to be a lot more than usual this year) to vote for Obama because McCain "can't win"? HMMMMM!? If you think about it, most news outlets tended to avoid going with the exit polls until the polls had closed to keep from influencing the election. But what's to stop them from putting out this polling information to influence the voting? And we're voting already in many parts of the country. HMMMMMM!? If you think about it - this makes perfect sense.