So I was just watching Lou Dobbs on CNN, waiting until they read the results of the online poll they’d been running for the whole hour. The poll asked, Do you believe illegal aliens should be able to collect social security benefits? I’d been periodically checking the results of the poll throughout the hour, and the highest percentage for No was 97% and the lowest was 93%. When the anchor read the results of their own online poll, she announced that 7% voted Yes and 93% voted No. I went online to check, and the current answer was actually a 5/95 split within 5 seconds of the tv reporting a different figure. There had only been about 3,000 votes for this poll.
Amazing. Can someone explain to me why a live news channel cannot read an instant online poll correctly? I don’t even know what they would be trying to prove if they did intentionally fudge the results!
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