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Fox viewers "Ought To Be outraged Because, day In and day out, they were told" Romney would win.
The GOP pollsters got the state polls wrong ,too, and wasted time in states like PA and OH that that Mittens would never win.
Rightardia thinks the pollsters must have been working in the conservative bubble, too, and refused to face the music. Of interest, a Nate Silver post mortem showed most of the public polls actually had a GOP bias.
1 minute snippet taken from the 12 minute msnbc video of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell's program which aired Wednesday 4-25-2012. O'Donnell is speaking about an excerpt from the book 'DO NOT ASK WHAT GOOD WE DO' by author Robert Draper.
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Frank Luntz, a biased Republican pollster, told a meeting of Republican Governors how deeply concerned he was about the impact Occupy Wall Street is having on political discourse and American’s view of capitalism.
Imagine having people realize that capitalists don’t always have their best interests at heart. That would do serious damage to that ‘job creators’ image conservatives have so carefully crafted over the last while.
Luntz outlined his strategy on how conservatives should deal with the movement. Chris Moody has the full list.
Don’t say ‘capitalism.’: “I’m trying to get that word removed and we’re replacing it with either ‘economic freedom’ or ‘free market,’ ” Luntz said. “The public . . . still prefers capitalism to socialism, but they think capitalism is immoral. And if we’re seen as defenders of quote, Wall Street, end quote, we’ve got a problem.”
Don’t say ‘tax the rich’: “If you talk about raising taxes on the rich,” the public responds favorably, Luntz cautioned. But ”if you talk about government taking the money from hardworking Americans, the public says no. Taxing, the public will say yes.”
Don’t say ‘middle class’: “They cannot win if the fight is on hardworking taxpayers. We can say we defend the ‘middle class’ and the public will say, I’m not sure about that. But defending ‘hardworking taxpayers’ and Republicans have the advantage.”
Don’t say ‘entrepreneur’: “Use the phrases “small business owners” and “job creators” instead of “entrepreneurs” and “innovators.”
Blame Washington for everything: Tell them, “You shouldn’t be occupying Wall Street, you should be occupying Washington. You should occupy the White House because it’s the policies over the past few years that have created this problem.”
Lou Dobb's recently featured a right wing pollster named Frank Luntz on his show. Luntz is not one of the more well respected pollsters in the industry.
Luntz starts rambling about morality, spirituality and life satisfaction that are abstract terms that border on the meaningless. Spiritual people are supposedly happier, but other studies have also shown that Baptists have the highest divorce rate and non-believers have the lowest.
Dobbs and Luntz state that no no one has read the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009, but the Senate bill has yet to be completed. The House and Senate bills will also need to be reconciled. At this point it will take two more months before the details of the final bill that is worked out in a joint House and Senate committees. There is really nothing to read at this point that accurately defines the shape of the new US health care system. Both Dobbs and Luntz should know this.
Pollsters love to talk about polls but the US is an indirect democracy. The people we elected in 2008 and the holdovers from prior elections will decide the fate of health care in the US, not the Tea Baggers or the vagaries of shifting public opinion.
In 1997, Luntz was reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research for refusing to release poll data to support his claimed results "because of client confidentiality". Diane Colasanto, who was president of the AAPOR when it reprimanded Luntz, said
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It is simply wanting to know, How many people did you question? What were the questions? We understand the need for confidentiality, but once a pollster makes results public, the information needs to be public. People need to be able to evaluate whether it was sound research.
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In 2000 he was censured by the National Council on Public Polls "for allegedly mischaracterizing on MSNBC the results of focus groups he conducted during the [2000] Republican Convention."
In September 2004, MSNBC dropped Luntz from its planned coverage of that year's presidential debate, following a letter from Media Matters that outlined Luntz's GOP ties and questionable polling methodology.
In a video piece, entertainers and libertariansPenn & Teller lambasted Luntz for his comment that the key to survey polling is "to ask a question in the way that you get the right answer". The two also popularized the phrase "F**k you Frank" in reference to the bias of Luntz.
In the wake of the 2008 Presidential election, fellow Republican and prominent pollster Bill McInturff criticized Luntz before journalists at a National Journal Breakfast, insisting that Luntz is "a moron" and lambasting him for mocking Senator McCain's inability to use a Blackberry, which McInturff attributed to the injuries that McCain sustained while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
See the Lou Dobb's video that features Frank Luntz.
