MoreWhat Matters: Today’s Harris Poll
For those of us who still view the evening network news from the television broadcast world, tonight was another disappointment and reminder of how useless they are. ABC, CBS and NBC began there evening newscasts with a story about stents versus drug therapy for the treatment of heart disease. In their defense we will point out when checking AP’s top news RSS feed at the same time, it was listed at the top of their ‘top’ news. Yes, we know, so what? An recent post we have here made some commentary on the state of all things news with the growing presence of the internet. Even though they have done this many times, it still serves as evidence of what is wrong with news when they keep making the same mistakes. If anyone is interested, we discontinued watching the American evening news and switched to the BBC on PBS. They were dealing with things like the sailors held by Iran and other internatinoal news.
That brings us to our evening news offering. Harris Interactive released poll results in a press release today. You can read it here (click). A poll of about 3000 people has led them to conclude that ‘the public’ is believing the Democrats and Hillary Rodham Clinton can fix the healthcare problem. What a laugher this is. Don’t even need to analyze the poll. The majority of citizens don’t vote. So we don’t care what they think. There are more registered Dems than GOP in the neighborhood of 70 million to 50 million. So you have better than even odds every person in the poll is a Democrat. You have near a 2 out of 3 chance that every person they polled doesn’t vote. So what’s your point? Gee, most of the people in this country who don’t vote or are registered Democrats think the Dems and Hillary Rodham Clinton have the ability to improve the healthcare system. We call this a meaningless point and poll.
Hillary Rodham Clinton shared the Whitehouse with you know who. Their flagship initiative in the 1992 campaign was healthcare reform. Hello!! Do we have healthcare reform?? Absolutely not!! Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked this week about healthcare and doesn’t have a clue. Even, no way he’s gonna win Edwards has presented a plan. Not much of one, but it’s a plan. What the hell is wrong with Harris Interactive or Harris Poll or whoever they are, to come out with a poll like this and expect anyone to take it seriously?
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
March 27th, 2007 at 12:31 am
You have near a 2 out of 3 chance that every person they polled doesn’t vote.
This is something I noticed too. Most of the pollsters poll folks who do NOT vote, Which begs the question why poll them. Because they know they can tip a poll left by doing so!
Good Post!
March 27th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Six of one, half dozen of another, when the polls don’t favor a politician they pitch the idea polls mean nothing. If the polls favor them, you hear how hard they’re working for all the citizens. It is all and endless production of fertilizer. The only poll that counts is the ballot box. The problem voters have is they only get to use it to test drive a candidate. There are not enough RECALL elections for the elected officials that ignore the voters after election day.