Zogby Won't Redo Obama Poll (public)

Nov 20, 2008 - Hmmm... By: Mike Allen/Politico November 20, 2008 04:03 PM EST Pollster John Zogby has rejected a conservative commentator’s offer to sponsor a poll to test the knowledge of people who voted for John McCain. The commentator was proposing to mirror a poll of Obama voters that caused a political uproar when it suggested that Obama supporters didn’t know what they were voting for. - 2 Comments

Interview with Unbiased Guy Behind Zogby How Obama Got Elected Poll (public)

Nov 19, 2008 - An Interview with John Ziegler on the Zogby "Push Poll" From Fivethirtyeight.com I had the chance this afternoon to speak with John Ziegler, a documentary filmmaker and former radio talk show host who built the website HowObamaGotElected.com and is promoting a forthcoming documentary of the same name. Ziegler was responsible for commissioning a Zogby International survey of Barack Obama supporters, which took the form of a multiple choice political knowledge test, stating a "fact" to the respondent and asking them which of the four major candidates (Obama, McCain, Biden, Palin) the statement applied to. Because I believe that many of the statements on the survey are questionable or false but are misleadingly presented as factual to the respondent, I characterized the survey as a "push poll" in an article posted early this morning. - 20 Comments

Americans Flunk Public Schools

Sep 30, 2009 - Survey: 'Half of adults lack confidence in U.S. education'   By Bob Unruh WorldNetDaily September 29, 2009 http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111439    Editor's note: This is another in a series of monthly "WND/WENZEL POLLS" - polls conducted exclusively for WND by the public opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.    The U.S. public school system is failing dismally, according to a new WorldNetDaily/Wenzel poll that reveals "barely half believe the public schools are providing students a comprehensive basic education." - 10 Comments

The Consumer Is Not the Customer

Sep 18, 2009 - Both parties promise to preserve one of the health care system's central problems. Jacob Sullum | September 16, 2009 The other day, I was trying to figure out why the paycheck deduction for my health insurance was higher than I had expected. When I called my insurer to ask what the total premium was, the customer service representative said it was none of my business. - 14 Comments

The Omnipresent Leader

Sep 05, 2009 - Author ArchiveSend to a FriendPrint Version September 5, 2009 7:00 AMThe Omnipresent LeaderThey want us to “pledge to be a servant to our president”?By Mark Steyn On Friday, I had the rare honor of appearing in the pages of the New York Times, apropos President Obama’s plans to beam himself into every schoolhouse in the land in the peculiar belief that Generation iPod will find this an enthralling technical novelty. As Times reporters James C. McKinley Jr. and Sam Dillon wrote: “Mark Steyn, a Canadian author and political commentator, speaking on the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, accused Mr. Obama of trying to create a cult of personality, comparing him to Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader.” Oh, dear! - 1 Comment

Clinton Holding The Line In Ohio, But Texas a Dead Heat

Mar 03, 2008 - New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have found some breathing room in Ohio in her race against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, but the contest in Texas is still too close to predict, according to the latest round of polls Monday. - 2 Comments

Obama's Betrayal On Don't Ask Don't Tell

Jun 08, 2009 - Obama's Betrayal On Don't Ask Don't Tell Shikha Dalmia, 06.03.09, 12:01 AM EDT The president's forgotten civil rights promise. Wars are riddled with all kinds of twisted ironies. During the Civil War, the Union army initially spurned blacks who it was crusading to emancipate--while the Confederate army recruited them in the final desperate hours of its fight to enslave them. - 3 Comments

How accurate are the 2008 polls?

Oct 23, 2008 - How Accurate are the 2008 Polls? By Tom Elia Oct. 22, 2008 http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/8701-How-Accurate-are-the-2008-Polls.html D. - 8 Comments

Media Decides Vote

Aug 28, 2008 - Major Media Decide — Vote Obama By Larry Elder Lawyers call this a "declaration against interest." Washington Post ombudsperson Deborah Howell wrote a column in her own newspaper comparing the paper's front-page coverage of Democratic nominee Barack Obama with that of Republican nominee John McCain. Her findings? - 6 Comments