This morning, Yahoo is listing as a top news story an article from Bloomberg News entitled "Obama has Post Convention Poll Lead; Palin an Unknown". The news piece was released at 1:41 P.M. on Sunday. It focuses on the Gallup tracking poll and reports that the latest poll shows Obama with a lead of 8%. This, according to Bloomberg, shows that Obama received a major bounce from the Democratic Convention.
The article is just plain wrong. First, the Gallup poll on Sunday (released prior to the article)shows a 6% Obama lead not an 8% lead. A few days earlier, the Obama lead had, in fact, reached 8%, but that is now trending lower. Second, while the article mentions the other main tracking poll, Rasmussen, it just says that the Obama lead there is 3%. It buries the fact that this 3% lead is identical to the lead that Obama held immediately prior to the DNC. In other words, Rasmussen shows no Obama bounce. Third, the article makes a big point that only 40% of those asked thought Palin was qualified to be President. While this fits into the talking points of the Obama campaign, it ignores the fact that a large portion of those polled said that they did not know Palin well enough to form an opinion of her qualifications. In other words, Bloomberg used outdated information and selective segments of other poll results to come up with a narrative that supports Obama.
Is there ever going to be a time when the media tries to be objective again? Are the American people really going to be left with propaganda as their main news source?
By the way, e-mails to the author of the article asking for a correction have gone unanswered.
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