We are too bored with the sampling bias in polls to do the research much anymore, but we’ll link to this post by Ace, which in turn links to the New Editor. The CBS poll was 35 to 28 Democrat, and AP/Ipsos was 49 to 40. B-o-r-i-n-g! In real life, the 2004 election was 37 to 37, so these polls are worse than meaningless. However, they are good for a laugh. Here’s a howler about the AP/Ipsos internals from The New Editor:

Only 80% of the respondents in this poll were registered voters, while 13% of the respondents reported that they were unemployed….

Look how far AP/Ipsos had to stray from reality to get a sample that dislikes George Bush in such numbers, larding its sample with unemployed non-voters. Yeah, that’s the future of the country.

As we have said, we believe that this kind of misleading polling does far more harm to Democrats than to Republicans. Hope is one of our most important human motivators. When Democrats see the awful Bush numbers pushed by these clowns in the polling world, they tend to believe them, since the low Bush numbers fuel their optimism. Unlike us, they are not going to spend a lot of time dissecting the internals. Hence, when the next election happens and their hopes are dashed again, they will wonder: what went wrong? They will not know that their own allies set them up for such disappointment, and therefore a correct diagnosis will be difficult.

Our one exception to this thesis is Republicans in the Senate; they often seem to believe any MSM nonsense aimed at weakening their resolve.

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