{"id":1317,"date":"2009-06-30T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2009-06-30T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:44:13","slug":"fox-pimps-fake-rasmussen-poll-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Fox Pimps Fake Rasmussen Poll Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Be sure to see Rasmussen’s previous fake index<\/a> wherein he invents new classes of “Mainstream Americans”<\/em> and “Political Elitists.”<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Last week I wrote about the latest index invented<\/a> by the notoriously deceptive Rasmussen polling firm. Rasmussen’s Presidential Approval Index actually distorts<\/a> the President’s approval by leaving out huge chunks of the poll’s respondents. He does this by counting only those who express a “strong”<\/em> opinion. As I said last week…<\/p>\n

The problem with this method is that it ignores all of those who approve or disapprove, albeit not strongly. In his own survey, the Presidential Approval Index is a negative 1 (-1), which he then releases to the media as demonstrating that the Obama honeymoon is over. However, his results including all respondents show that Obama is regarded favorably by a healthy majority of 54%, compared to 45% who disapprove (+7).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the end of that article I concluded that “Rasmussen has emerged as the number one most likely pollster to be interviewed on Fox News.”<\/em> That has been true for some time, but now Fox is tightening their embrace of the partisan pollster by misrepresenting the already skewed results. Here is their story from The Fox Nation announcing that “Obama Job Approval Index Dips Negative for First Time”<\/em> :<\/p>\n

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In addition to the statistical flaws in the poll itself, Fox has incorrectly reported that the index dipped into negative territory for the first time. In fact, the first time was a week ago when I originally reported the phony index. This is the third time that the index has been negative. Even so, the index wavers in a narrow range that barely brushes its own margin of error.<\/p>\n

You really have to wonder how Fox manages to screw up stories even when they originate from their own partners in propaganda. The lesson is to never underestimate Fox’s ability to slant a story in favor of their rightist prejudice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be sure to see Rasmussen’s previous fake index wherein he invents new classes of “Mainstream Americans” and “Political Elitists.” Last week I wrote about the latest index invented by the notoriously deceptive Rasmussen polling firm. Rasmussen’s Presidential Approval Index actually distorts the President’s approval by leaving out huge chunks of the poll’s respondents. He does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[33,585],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-fox-news","tag-rasmussen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-lf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2492,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2492","url_meta":{"origin":1317,"position":0},"title":"Fox News And Right-Wing Media Synergy","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/21\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Wall Street Journal published an article this morning profiling pollster Scott Rasmussen. 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