Lou Dobb's features biased right wing pollster, Frank Luntz

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 libertarians Penn & 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.


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