AP Poll Report Claims Confidence That Obama Will 'Fix' Economy; Actual Poll Asked If He Will 'Improve' It
politics, news media, bias, left wing, liberalism
November 11, 2008, by Tom Blumer
A report this afternoon on the results of an AP GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media Poll is headlined "Most in AP poll confident Obama will fix economy " at Yahoo!, Google (shorter report), and the wire service's home site (all are dynamic links subject to change).
There are "only" two problems:
* The underlying sample is heavily skewed towards Democrats, including strong Democrats.
* Much more important, in fact crossing into downright dishonesty, the poll question asked had to do with whether respondents thought that Obama would "improve" the economy, not "fix" it