AP - Another Skewed Poll- 'Americans Want Democrats in Power'

NewsBusters by Warner Todd Huston | Jul. 14, 2006 (Opinion)

Why anyone ever bothers using an AP/Ipsos poll result to "prove" anything is beyond me. It has been well documented by multiple sources that this France based polling company habitually over samples Democrats in their polls and this particular poll is no different. Full Story »

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 by David Fox - Oct. 1, 2008

While I don't agree with this point of view, I'm impressed that the writer actually took the time to locate the original source of the poll data and noticed that Democrats were over sampled, 53% to Republicans, 41%. I don't know enough about interpreting polls, but this would seem like important information, which was omitted from most (all?) of the versions of the original AP story.

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