Posted by
Logical Party on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:39:26 AM
What a Difference a Day Makes
It's time the political analysts, pundits and news shows start taking a wider sampling of the electorate before they come up with such bogus, contradictory surprise results. So far Huckabee and McCain were on life support, Thompson was the reincarnation of Reagan, and the National Leaders Clinton and Guilaini should be on the verge of withdrawal after 1 caucus and 1 primary result.
We were told that anyone polling below 15% in Iowa would also sway the outcome, and we get not even of blip of votes after the three top Democrats. Last night's Independents went to McCain as well as Barack, in opposition of the prediction Obama would get the lion's share of that group.
Journalists consistently are making the error of judgment by making the news instead of reporting it, and in their passion and zeal of livelihood, and thirst for a thrilling election series, are drawing conclusions on questionably valid assessments. The great damage here is that it could possibly sway current voters in their decision making process, and sour the appeal of candidates who haven't gotten a vote chance in their home state and region.
The polling services and news shows need to expand either their research or their margin of error, thus toning down their "global" conclusions of a candidates chance. Last night N.H. said it was fed up with telling them that Mrs. Clinton, the National polling leader for the democrats, was near dead. Pollsters and journalists need to set their standard higher than that of our local weatherman.