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bogosities https://www.dailykos.com/news/bogosities News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:58:08 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:58:08 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Eric Boehlert Takes Down A Bogus Poll https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/12/1484391/-Eric-Boehlert-Takes-Down-A-Bogus-Poll <p>Much excitement has been generated today by the silliest poll-like object I’ve seen that’s not by Overtime Strategies. I speak of course of the bogosity by the conservative Washington Free Beacon publication that has been hyped from here to Charing Cross because it allegedly shows Hillary and Bernie tied in the run-up to the Nevada caucus.</p> <p>Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert has examined this poll-like object and found it wanting, and not just because of its highly questionable numbers. As a perusal of the loaded questions shows, this thing was designed as a classic Republican “push poll” and it’s designed to make both Sanders and Clinton look bad:</p> <div class="center-block dk-editor-embed" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;this NV poll also pushes dopey anti-Sanders Q&amp;#39;s. &lt;a href="https://t.co/Rsg0ums5AJ"&gt;pic.twitter.com/Rsg0ums5AJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/698264191875092481"&gt;February 12, 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; '> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">this NV poll also pushes dopey anti-Sanders Q's. <a href="https://t.co/Rsg0ums5AJ">pic.twitter.com/Rsg0ums5AJ</a></p>— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/698264191875092481">February 12, 2016</a> </blockquote> </div> <div class="center-block dk-editor-embed" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;the fact ANY reporter is taking this NV poll seriously is laughable. &lt;a href="https://t.co/5JJ55fTiAv"&gt;pic.twitter.com/5JJ55fTiAv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/698261407003967489"&gt;February 12, 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; '> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">the fact ANY reporter is taking this NV poll seriously is laughable. <a href="https://t.co/5JJ55fTiAv">pic.twitter.com/5JJ55fTiAv</a></p>— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/698261407003967489">February 12, 2016</a> </blockquote> </div> <p> If I were a Bernie fan, I wouldn’t be hyping this poll-like object.</p> rss@dailykos.com (Phoenix Woman) BernieSanders bogosities dumpsterfires EricBoehlert HillaryClinton MediaMatters PushPolls WashingtonFreeBeacon _1484391 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 03:43:38 +0000