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Tuesday, October 08, 2002
 
Well, I Guess He Should Know

The story is already up on Drudge, and it's exactly the kind of thing the blogosphere loves to talk about, so I am sure that by the time you get here you will have already read this piece by Dick Morris in the NY Post on the slant in a recent NY Times poll, but in case you haven't read it yet, check it out.
For decades, responsible journalists refused even to cover public-opinion polls. Then, in a turnaround, they began to conduct them and treat their findings as hard news. Now the process has come full circle: Journalists appear to be using polls to generate the conclusions they want and to validate their own pre-existing theses and hypotheses.

When politicians use polling to produce a political outcome, not to probe what the public genuinely thinks, newspapers condemn it as "push polling." Is push polling any better done by a liberal newspaper universally respected for its integrity?